Hi,



Sorry, maybe what I asked was a bit confusing. My question is, except robust and process-shared mutex,  what is the purpose of putting the other kinds of mutexes into Robust_list such as the normal recursive mutex. 


Take a normal recursive mutex as an example, if I lock and unlock it correctly in a thread, it will be put into robust list in pthread_mutex_lock and get removed from the list in pthread_mutex_unlock(). If I lock it but miss to unlock, it will be still in robust list and processed in pthread_exit(). But in both cases, I did not find that the presence of the robust list had any impact on this mutex. Does it not need to be put into the robust list.




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JinCheng Li







                       
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Hi,

not entirely sure what you mean. All non-normal mutexes get added to the
robust list, yes, but also get removed from the list in
pthread_mutex_unlock(). And the robust list is processed in
pthread_exit(), which all threads must call sooner or later. Only
exception is when a thread crashes, but in that case the entire process
dies, and non-pshared mutexes cease to matter.

If a thread is cancelled, __cancel() will call pthread_exit(). And I
know of no other way for a thread to "end" as you put it.

Ciao,
Markus