4 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Rich Felker
3f72cdac73 overhaul clone syscall wrapping
several things are changed. first, i have removed the old __uniclone
function signature and replaced it with the "standard" linux
__clone/clone signature. this was necessary to expose clone to
applications anyway, and it makes it easier to port __clone to new
archs, since it's now testable independently of pthread_create.

secondly, i have removed all references to the ugly ldt descriptor
structure (i386 only) from the c code and pthread structure. in places
where it is needed, it is now created on the stack just when it's
needed, in assembly code. thus, the i386 __clone function takes the
desired thread pointer as its argument, rather than an ldt descriptor
pointer, just like on all other sane archs. this should not affect
applications since there is really no way an application can use clone
with threads/tls in a way that doesn't horribly conflict with and
clobber the underlying implementation's use. applications are expected
to use clone only for creating actual processes, possibly with new
namespace features and whatnot.
2011-09-18 10:14:37 -04:00
Rich Felker
d5fd1fa485 dummy implementation of set_thread_area
eventually we may have a working "generic" implementation for archs
that don't need anything special. in any case, the goal of having
stubs like this is to allow early testing of new ports before all the
details needed for threads have been filled in. more functions like
this will follow.
2011-09-17 11:37:46 -04:00
Rich Felker
7b2dd2235d finish unifying thread register handling in preparation for porting 2011-02-15 03:56:52 -05:00
Rich Felker
0b44a0315b initial check-in, version 0.5.0 2011-02-12 00:22:29 -05:00