Good morning,
I've already posted this to the general RedHat list - but it was suggested it might be more appropriate to the development list.
I was wondering if anyone could explain to me the difference between the pthread libraries in /lib and /lib/tls on RedHat 9. I ask because the library in /lib/tls (which is linked by default when you supply -lpthread to gcc) displays unexpected behavior, whereas the library in /lib or /lib/i686, behaves correctly.
The code below demonstrates the difference:
#include <dlfcn.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
/// Our global key for accesing the TSS
static pthread_key_t gcKey;
/// Destructor
static void DestroyKey (void* pcValue)
{
printf("Freeing TSS\n");
abort();
free (pcValue);
}
/// Initialization code
static void* Init(void *arg)
{
pthread_key_create (&gcKey, DestroyKey);
pthread_setspecific(gcKey, malloc(42));
return (void *) 0;
}
int
main (int argc, char* argv[])
{
pthread_t myThread;
pthread_create(&myThread, NULL, Init, NULL);
return 0;
}
}
In this example program, we create a thread, and allocate some thread specific storage, passing a pointer to the DestroyKey function to pthread_key_create. We would expect this function to be called when the thread's thread specific storage is destroyed, i.e. on thread exit. We would then expect the program to print a message and abort (i.e. dump core).
When linked against /lib/tls/libpthread-0.29.so, DestroyKey is not called. If I change the permissions on /lib/tls/libpthread-0.29.so and /lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so to make them unreadable, so my program gets linked against /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 and /lib/i686/libc.so.6, DestroyKey is called on thread exit.
I'm curious as to whether anyone knows a) if this is a bug in the default threading library and b) if anyone knows a more elegant way to force my application to link against the 'right' libraries other than changing the permissions on the 'wrong' libraries. I have tried the -nostdlib option to gcc.
Regards
Tom Bailey
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