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Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2016 21:46:53 +0100
From: Tomasz Sterna <tomek@...oka.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add sched_getcpu
W dniu 01.03.2016, wto o godzinie 17∶34 -0500, użytkownik Rich Felker
napisał:
> syscall(SYS_exit
> SYS_exit cannot be used safely unless you have a single-threaded
> program, and in that case you can use _exit (SYS_exit_group).
How should I properly terminate current task then?
> > syscall(SYS_gettid
> For glibc it's been controversial whether to expose tids as a public
> API, since it pokes through the pthread abstraction and imposes a 1:1
> threads implementation.
I am implementing a threading and mutex API that is different to
pthread. (Still 1:1 though.)
Using pthread to do this proved to be cumbersome, but using native
Linux abstractions turned out to be pretty straightforward.
> syscall(SYS_tgkill
> tgkill also requires tids to be exposed an potentially has other
> issues, and doesn't seem to offer anything that pthread_kill doesn't.
As above - using pthreads is not the good way to do it in my case.
> wrapped, I am all for it. But if not, why some syscalls are
> > special?
> I hope I've answered this to some extent.
More than enough.
Thank you for your patience.
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