Can you safely use glibc functions in a thread safe way (e.g., malloc()
and friends) from threads generated by:
clone(f, stack, CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES|CLONE_VM, t)
Thx
Russ
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 20:40 -0500, Russell Leighton wrote:
> Can you safely use glibc functions in a thread safe way (e.g., malloc()
> and friends) from threads generated by:
>
> clone(f, stack, CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES|CLONE_VM, t)
no
unless you tell glibc you're using threads (by using the glibc threading
primitives) glibc doesn't provide such thread safety.
(glibc at runtime knows you have threads and switches to thread-safe
operations)