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* posix/fnmatch.c (internal_fnmatch): Make it compilable outside glibc by defining internal_function if it isn't already.
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1999-09-12 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
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* posix/fnmatch.c (internal_fnmatch): Make it compilable outside
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glibc by defining internal_function if it isn't already.
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* resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c (_nss_dns_gethostbyname2_r): If res_search
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fails don't rely on errno value.
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(getanswer_r): Set *ERRNOP in error cases.
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@ -73,13 +73,12 @@ platforms.<P>
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<H4><A NAME="A.4">A.4: What is the status of LinuxThreads?</A></H4>
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In short, it's not completely finished (hence the version numbers in
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0.<I>x</I>), but what is done is pretty mature.
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LinuxThreads implements almost all of Posix 1003.1c, as well as a few
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extensions. The only part of LinuxThreads that does not conform yet
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to Posix is signal handling (see section <A HREF="#J">J</A>). Apart
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from the signal stuff, all the Posix 1003.1c base functionality is
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provided and conforms to the standard (to the best of my knowledge).
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from the signal stuff, all the Posix 1003.1c base functionality,
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as well as a number of optional extensions, are provided and conform
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to the standard (to the best of my knowledge).
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The signal stuff is hard to get right, at least without special kernel
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support, and while I'm definitely looking at ways to implement the
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Posix behavior for signals, this might take a long time before it's
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@ -90,11 +89,10 @@ completed.<P>
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The basic functionality (thread creation and termination, mutexes,
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conditions, semaphores) is very stable. Several industrial-strength
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programs, such as the AOL multithreaded Web server, use LinuxThreads
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and seem quite happy about it. There are some rough edges in
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the LinuxThreads / C library interface, at least with libc 5, but most
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of these rough edges are fixed in glibc 2, which should soon become
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the standard C library for Linux distributions (see section <A
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HREF="#C">C</A>). <P>
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and seem quite happy about it. There used to be some rough edges in
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the LinuxThreads / C library interface with libc 5, but glibc 2
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fixes all of those problems and is now the standard C library on major
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Linux distributions (see section <A HREF="#C">C</A>). <P>
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<HR>
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<P>
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@ -139,12 +137,22 @@ HREF="news:comp.os.linux.development.kernel">comp.os.linux.development.kernel</A
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The latter is especially appropriate for questions relative to the
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interface between the kernel and LinuxThreads.<P>
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Very specific LinuxThreads questions, and in particular everything
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that looks like a potential bug in LinuxThreads, should be mailed
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directly to me (<code>Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr</code>). Before mailing
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me, make sure that your question is not answered in this FAQ.<P>
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<H4><A NAME="B.4">B.4: How should I report a possible bug in
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LinuxThreads?</A></H4>
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<H4><A NAME="B.4">B.4: I'd like to read the POSIX 1003.1c standard. Is
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If you're using glibc 2, the best way by far is to use the
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<code>glibcbug</code> script to mail a bug report to the glibc
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maintainers. <P>
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If you're using an older libc, or don't have the <code>glibcbug</code>
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script on your machine, then e-mail me directly
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(<code>Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr</code>). <P>
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In both cases, before sending the bug report, make sure that it is not
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addressed already in this FAQ. Also, try to send a short program that
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reproduces the weird behavior you observed. <P>
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<H4><A NAME="B.5">B.5: I'd like to read the POSIX 1003.1c standard. Is
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it available online?</A></H4>
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Unfortunately, no. POSIX standards are copyrighted by IEEE, and
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@ -183,8 +191,8 @@ integrated with glibc 2. The glibc 2 distribution contains the
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sources of a specially adapted version of LinuxThreads.<P>
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glibc 2 comes preinstalled as the default C library on several Linux
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distributions, such as RedHat 5.0 and 5.1, and recent beta versions of
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Debian. Those distributions include the version of LinuxThreads matching
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distributions, such as RedHat 5 and up, and Debian 2.
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Those distributions include the version of LinuxThreads matching
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glibc 2.<P>
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<H4><A NAME="C.2">C.2: My system has libc 5 preinstalled, not glibc
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@ -199,14 +207,6 @@ libc 5.2.18 on the one hand, and libc 5.4.12 or later on the other hand.
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Avoid 5.3.12 and 5.4.7: these have problems with the per-thread errno
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variable. <P>
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Unfortunately, many popular Linux distributions (e.g. RedHat 4.2) come
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with libc 5.3.12 preinstalled -- the one that does not work with
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LinuxThreads. Fortunately, you can often find pre-packaged binaries
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of more recent versions of libc for these distributions. In the case
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of RedHat 4, there is a RPM package for libc-5.4 in the "contrib"
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area of RedHat FTP sites.
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<P>
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<H4><A NAME="C.3">C.3: So, should I switch to glibc 2, or stay with a
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recent libc 5?</A></H4>
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@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ Switching an already installed
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system from libc 5 to glibc 2 is not completely straightforward.
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See the <A HREF="http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Glibc2-HOWTO.html">Glibc2
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HOWTO</A> for more information. Much easier is (re-)installing a
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Linux distribution based on glibc 2, such as RedHat 5.1.<P>
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Linux distribution based on glibc 2, such as RedHat 6.<P>
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<H4><A NAME="C.4">C.4: Where can I find glibc 2 and the version of
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LinuxThreads that goes with it?</A></H4>
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@ -237,6 +237,31 @@ For libc 5, see <A HREF="ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/GCC/"><code>ftp:/
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For the libc 5 version of LinuxThreads, see
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<A HREF="ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Projects/cristal/Xavier.Leroy/linuxthreads/">ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Projects/cristal/Xavier.Leroy/linuxthreads/</A>.<P>
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<H4><A NAME="C.6">C.6: How can I recompile the glibc 2 version of the
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LinuxThreads sources?</A></H4>
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You must transfer the whole glibc sources, then drop the LinuxThreads
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sources in the <code>linuxthreads/</code> subdirectory, then recompile
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glibc as a whole. There are now too many inter-dependencies between
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LinuxThreads and glibc 2 to allow separate re-compilation of LinuxThreads.
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<P>
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<H4><A NAME="C.7">C.7: What is the correspondence between LinuxThreads
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version numbers, libc version numbers, and RedHat version
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numbers?</A></H4>
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Here is a summary. (Information on Linux distributions other than
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RedHat are welcome.)<P>
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<TABLE>
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<TR><TD>LinuxThreads </TD> <TD>C library</TD> <TD>RedHat</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD>0.7, 0.71 (for libc 5)</TD> <TD>libc 5.x</TD> <TD>RH 4.2</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD>0.7, 0.71 (for glibc 2)</TD> <TD>glibc 2.0.x</TD> <TD>RH 5.x</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD>0.8</TD> <TD>glibc 2.1.1</TD> <TD>RH 6.0</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD>0.8</TD> <TD>glibc 2.1.2</TD> <TD>not yet released</TD></TR>
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</TABLE>
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<P>
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<HR>
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<P>
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You're using one of the buggy versions of libc (5.3.12, 5.4.7., etc).
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See question <A HREF="#C.1">C.1</A> above.<P>
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<H4><A NAME="D.4">D.4: My program crashes the first time it calls
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<CODE>pthread_create()</CODE> !</A></H4>
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<H4><A NAME="D.4">D.4: My program creates a lot of threads, and after
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a while <CODE>pthread_create()</CODE> no longer returns!</A></H4>
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You wouldn't be using glibc 2.0, by any chance? That's a known bug
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with glibc 2.0. Please upgrade to 2.0.1 or later.<P>
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This is known bug in the version of LinuxThreads that comes with glibc
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2.1.1. An upgrade to 2.1.2 is recommended. <P>
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<H4><A NAME="D.5">D.5: When I'm running a program that creates N
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threads, <code>top</code> or <code>ps</code>
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<code>pthread_cleanup_pop</code> to close that block. It's ugly, but
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it's the standard way of implementing cleanup handlers.<P>
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<H4><A NAME="D.9">D.9: I tried to use real-time threads and my program
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loops like crazy and freezes the whole machine!</A></H4>
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Versions of LinuxThreads prior to 0.8 are susceptible to ``livelocks''
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(one thread loops, consuming 100% of the CPU time) in conjunction with
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real-time scheduling. Since real-time threads and processes have
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higher priority than normal Linux processes, all other processes on
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the machine, including the shell, the X server, etc, cannot run and
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the machine appears frozen.<P>
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The problem is fixed in LinuxThreads 0.8.<P>
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<H4><A NAME="D.10">D.10: My application needs to create thousands of
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threads, or maybe even more. Can I do this with
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LinuxThreads?</A></H4>
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No. You're going to run into several hard limits:
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<UL>
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<LI>Each thread, from the kernel's standpoint, is one process. Stock
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Linux kernels are limited to at most 512 processes for the super-user,
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and half this number for regular users. This can be changed by
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changing <code>NR_TASKS</code> in <code>include/linux/tasks.h</code>
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and recompiling the kernel. On the x86 processors at least,
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architectural constraints seem to limit <code>NR_TASKS</code> to 4090
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at most.
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<LI>LinuxThreads contains a table of all active threads. This table
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has room for 1024 threads at most. To increase this limit, you must
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change <code>PTHREAD_THREADS_MAX</code> in the LinuxThreads sources
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and recompile.
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<LI>By default, each thread reserves 2M of virtual memory space for
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its stack. This space is just reserved; actual memory is allocated
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for the stack on demand. But still, on a 32-bit processor, the total
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virtual memory space available for the stacks is on the order of 1G,
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meaning that more than 500 threads will have a hard time fitting in.
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You can overcome this limitation by moving to a 64-bit platform, or by
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allocating smaller stacks yourself using the <code>setstackaddr</code>
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attribute.
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<LI>Finally, the Linux kernel contains many algorithms that run in
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time proportional to the number of process table entries. Increasing
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this number drastically will slow down the kernel operations
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noticeably.
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</UL>
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(Other POSIX threads libraries have similar limitations, by the way.)
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For all those reasons, you'd better restructure your application so
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that it doesn't need more than, say, 100 threads. For instance,
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in the case of a multithreaded server, instead of creating a new
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thread for each connection, maintain a fixed-size pool of worker
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threads that pick incoming connection requests from a queue.<P>
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<HR>
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<P>
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<H4><A NAME="F.3">F.3: I'm trying to use LinuxThreads in conjunction
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with libg++, and I'm having all sorts of trouble.</A></H4>
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From what I understand, thread support in libg++ is completely broken,
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>From what I understand, thread support in libg++ is completely broken,
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especially with respect to locking of iostreams. H.J.Lu wrote:
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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If you want to use thread, I can only suggest egcs and glibc. You
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Group, Grenoble. The patches against gdb 4.17 are available at
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<A HREF="http://www.gr.opengroup.org/java/jdk/linux/debug.htm"><code>http://www.gr.opengroup.org/java/jdk/linux/debug.htm</code></A>.
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Precompiled binaries of the patched gdb are available in RedHat's RPM
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format at <A HREF="http://odin.appliedtheory.com/"><code>http://odin.appliedtheory.com/</code></A>.
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format at <A
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HREF="http://odin.appliedtheory.com/"><code>http://odin.appliedtheory.com/</code></A>.<P>
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Some Linux distributions provide an already-patched version of gdb;
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others don't. For instance, the gdb in RedHat 5.2 is thread-aware,
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but apparently not the one in RedHat 6.0. Just ask (politely) the
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makers of your Linux distributions to please make sure that they apply
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the correct patches to gdb.<P>
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<H4><A NAME="G.2">G.2: Does it work with post-mortem debugging?</A></H4>
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<code>SIGUSR1</code> and <code>SIGUSR2</code>. So, LinuxThreads has
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no choice but use those two signals.<P>
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On recent kernels (late 2.1 kernels and the forthcoming 2.2 kernels),
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more than 32 signals are provided in the form of realtime signals.
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When run on one of those kernels, LinuxThreads uses two reserved
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realtime signals for its internal operation, thus leaving
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<code>SIGUSR1</code> and <code>SIGUSR2</code> free for user code.<P>
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On recent kernels (2.2 and up), more than 32 signals are provided in
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the form of realtime signals. When run on one of those kernels,
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LinuxThreads uses two reserved realtime signals for its internal
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operation, thus leaving <code>SIGUSR1</code> and <code>SIGUSR2</code>
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free for user code. (This works only with glibc, not with libc 5.) <P>
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<H4><A NAME="H.5">H.5: Is the stack of one thread visible from the
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other threads? Can I pass a pointer into my stack to other threads?
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The best solution is to use X libraries that have been compiled with
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multithreading options set. Linux distributions that come with glibc
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2 as the main C library generally provide thread-safe X libraries.
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At least, that seems to be the case for RedHat 5.<P>
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At least, that seems to be the case for RedHat 5 and later.<P>
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You can try to recompile yourself the X libraries with multithreading
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No, I don't. Sorry. But consider installing a Linux distribution
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that comes with thread-safe X libraries, such as RedHat 5.<P>
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that comes with thread-safe X libraries, such as RedHat 6.<P>
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<H4><A NAME="I.3">I.3: Can I use library FOO in a multithreaded
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program?</A></H4>
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# define ISASCII(c) isascii(c)
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# endif
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#ifdef isblank
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# define ISBLANK(c) (ISASCII (c) && isblank (c))
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#else
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# define ISBLANK(c) ((c) == ' ' || (c) == '\t')
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#endif
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#ifdef isgraph
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# define ISGRAPH(c) (ISASCII (c) && isgraph (c))
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#else
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# define ISGRAPH(c) (ISASCII (c) && isprint (c) && !isspace (c))
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#endif
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# ifdef isblank
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# define ISBLANK(c) (ISASCII (c) && isblank (c))
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# else
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# define ISBLANK(c) ((c) == ' ' || (c) == '\t')
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# endif
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# ifdef isgraph
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# define ISGRAPH(c) (ISASCII (c) && isgraph (c))
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# else
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# define ISGRAPH(c) (ISASCII (c) && isprint (c) && !isspace (c))
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# endif
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#define ISPRINT(c) (ISASCII (c) && isprint (c))
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#define ISDIGIT(c) (ISASCII (c) && isdigit (c))
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#define ISALNUM(c) (ISASCII (c) && isalnum (c))
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#define ISALPHA(c) (ISASCII (c) && isalpha (c))
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#define ISCNTRL(c) (ISASCII (c) && iscntrl (c))
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#define ISLOWER(c) (ISASCII (c) && islower (c))
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#define ISPUNCT(c) (ISASCII (c) && ispunct (c))
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#define ISSPACE(c) (ISASCII (c) && isspace (c))
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#define ISUPPER(c) (ISASCII (c) && isupper (c))
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#define ISXDIGIT(c) (ISASCII (c) && isxdigit (c))
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# define ISPRINT(c) (ISASCII (c) && isprint (c))
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# define ISDIGIT(c) (ISASCII (c) && isdigit (c))
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# define ISALNUM(c) (ISASCII (c) && isalnum (c))
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# define ISALPHA(c) (ISASCII (c) && isalpha (c))
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# define ISCNTRL(c) (ISASCII (c) && iscntrl (c))
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# define ISLOWER(c) (ISASCII (c) && islower (c))
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# define ISPUNCT(c) (ISASCII (c) && ispunct (c))
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# define ISSPACE(c) (ISASCII (c) && isspace (c))
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# define ISUPPER(c) (ISASCII (c) && isupper (c))
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# define ISXDIGIT(c) (ISASCII (c) && isxdigit (c))
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# define STREQ(s1, s2) ((strcmp (s1, s2) == 0))
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}
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# endif
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# ifndef internal_function
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/* Inside GNU libc we mark some function in a special way. In other
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environments simply ignore the marking. */
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# define internal_function
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# endif
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/* Match STRING against the filename pattern PATTERN, returning zero if
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it matches, nonzero if not. */
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static int internal_fnmatch __P ((const char *pattern, const char *string,
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int no_leading_period, int flags))
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internal_function;
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static int
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#ifdef _LIBC
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internal_function
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#endif
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internal_fnmatch (pattern, string, no_leading_period, flags)
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const char *pattern;
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const char *string;
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