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From: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: thread local storage
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:18:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120716221853.GP544@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <500487D9.4060404@barfooze.de>

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:30:01PM +0200, John Spencer wrote:
> On 07/16/2012 10:09 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
> >
> >This is broken and non-thread-safe. Not a good idea. Instead try:
> 
> thanks, very interesting.
> 
> do you mind if i forward this to the luajit ml ?
> looks as if this might fix the problem on OSX/OpenBSD as well.

Please do. This is the correct, portable fix. Using __thread or
_Thread_local might be prefered to avoid the init/cleanup need when
possible, but the POSIX fallback should be used rather than falling
back to code that will horribly crash or even yield privilege
elevation under multi-threaded use.

Rich


  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-16 22:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-16 19:02 John Spencer
2012-07-16 18:57 ` Gregor Richards
2012-07-16 20:09   ` Rich Felker
2012-07-16 21:30     ` John Spencer
2012-07-16 22:18       ` Rich Felker [this message]
2012-07-16 19:58 ` Justin Cormack
2012-07-16 20:03 ` Rich Felker
2012-07-16 22:06   ` John Spencer

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