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| author | Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com> | 2012-05-15 09:41:27 +0530 |
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| committer | Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com> | 2012-05-15 09:41:57 +0530 |
| commit | 439bf404b8fa125cf950dc1aa37838702c5353ea (patch) | |
| tree | da5913033bcfa18987da0aabf69ad99b751772a3 /nptl/vars.c | |
| parent | 2949684c162a4413e42249d6b2ad554cb468b5be (diff) | |
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Allow a single-threaded program to cancel itself
There is nothing in the POSIX specification to disallow a single-threaded program from cancelling itself, so we forcibly enable multiple_threads to allow the next available cancellation point in the thread to run. Also added additional tests to cover various cancellation scenarios.
Diffstat (limited to 'nptl/vars.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | nptl/vars.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/nptl/vars.c b/nptl/vars.c index 8f3023cfc0..43a6e3957c 100644 --- a/nptl/vars.c +++ b/nptl/vars.c @@ -32,7 +32,9 @@ size_t __default_stacksize attribute_hidden int __is_smp attribute_hidden; #ifndef TLS_MULTIPLE_THREADS_IN_TCB -/* Variable set to a nonzero value if more than one thread runs or ran. */ +/* Variable set to a nonzero value either if more than one thread runs or ran, + or if a single-threaded process is trying to cancel itself. See + nptl/descr.h for more context on the single-threaded process case. */ int __pthread_multiple_threads attribute_hidden; #endif |