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From: Barry Flartus <barry.flartus@gmail.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Problems with pthreads from a shared object?
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 18:00:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHnO0JtBcYitENkyfoR9itNgw0ja-dVmOkiyjTEm99POYBut+w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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Hello,

I am encountering some issues that I believe are musl related when trying to
use pthreads from a shared object. Below is a minimal example (2 files) of
the problem.

==================== test.c ====================

// Compile with
// musl-gcc -Wall -lpthread -shared -fPIC test.c -o test.so

#include <pthread.h>
#include <stdio.h>

static void *launch(void *arg);
int start_thread(void);
void entry_point(void) __attribute__((constructor));

static pthread_t gthread;

static void *launch(void *arg)
{
    for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++){
        printf("[%d] Hello from the thread\n", i);
    }
    return NULL;
}

int start_thread(void)
{
    printf("Starting the thread\n");
    return pthread_create(&gthread, NULL, launch, NULL);
}

void entry_point(void){
    puts("Starting Execution");
    int res = start_thread();
    printf("start_thread returned %d\n", res);
    if (res == 0){
        pthread_join(gthread, NULL);
    } else {
        printf("pthread_create() returned an error. Aborting.\n");
    }
}

==================== launch.c ====================

// Compile with:
// gcc launch.c -ldl -o launch

#include <dlfcn.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(){
    void *handle;

    puts("\nLaunching test...");
    handle = dlopen("./test.so", RTLD_NOW);
    if (!handle) {
        fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", dlerror());
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }
    dlerror();

    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

When the above examples are compiled with gcc, everything works correctly
and
produces the following output:

Launching test...
Starting Execution
Starting the threadstart_thread returned 0
[0] Hello from the thread
[1] Hello from the thread
[2] Hello from the thread
[3] Hello from the thread

When I switch to musl pthread_create() returns the integer '38', which is an
undocumented return value. I assume this corresponds with ENOSYS from
errno.h
but I can't seem to figure out why this is happening.

Output:

Launching test...
Starting Execution
Starting the thread
start_thread returned 38
pthread_create() returned an error. Aborting.

Is this even supported by musl? If so, where have I gone wrong?

Thanks in advance!

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             reply	other threads:[~2018-11-07 23:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-07 23:00 Barry Flartus [this message]
2018-11-07 23:31 ` Rich Felker
2018-11-07 23:40   ` Barry Flartus
2018-11-07 23:45     ` Rich Felker
2018-11-07 23:53       ` Barry Flartus
2018-11-08  0:43         ` Rich Felker
2018-11-08  1:02           ` Barry Flartus
2018-11-08  1:28             ` Rich Felker
2018-11-08  8:50           ` Jeffrey Walton
2018-11-08 14:53             ` Barry Flartus
2018-11-08 15:17               ` Rich Felker
2018-11-08 17:14                 ` Barry Flartus
2018-11-08 17:37                   ` Rich Felker
2018-11-08 17:56                     ` Barry Flartus

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