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authorSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>2013-06-15 12:24:15 +0530
committerSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>2013-06-15 12:24:15 +0530
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New API to set default thread attributes
This patch introduces two new convenience functions to set the default
thread attributes used for creating threads.  This allows a programmer
to set the default thread attributes just once in a process and then
run pthread_create without additional attributes.
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@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ Version 2.18
 
 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
   for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
+
+* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
+  pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
+  attributes of a process.
 
 Version 2.17