What is __thread tls?
Zera William Holladay
zholla1 at uic.edu
Mon Mar 14 11:59:20 PST 2005
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Matthew Dillon wrote:
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> This feature could be used by, well, just about every library. For example,
> it would allow us to clean up how 'errno' works in a threaded environment.
> It would allow standard libc calls such as ctime() and localtime() work
> properly in a threaded environment, and it would greatly simplify the job
> of writing threaded library code.
I was under the impression that each pthread has its own errno??? Perhaps
I am not understanding the context. I'm writing my first threaded
application so I had best get this straight sooner rather than later.
-Zera
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