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Re: An idea for pthreads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Burgess)
Wed Oct 25 15:43:13 1995
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 95 12:24 PDT
From: aab@cichlid.com (Andy Burgess)
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Cc: pthreads@MIT.EDU
>> % ld -r -o syscalls.o -u <list of system call symbols ie _write etc>
>> /usr/lib/libc.a
>
>The C library system call routines set the global errno value, which
>isn't appropriate for a threaded program. There's no way to get at
>"just the system call" inside the C library, so the assembly code
>really is necessary.
I think the idea was to call the C lib fcn and then do some housekeeping
before returning, eg (in pseudo code): errno_table[thread] = errno
Andy 'I could be wrong' Burgess
aab@cichlid.com
