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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Jeff Hostetler via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jeff Hostetler" <jeffhost@microsoft.com>,
	"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] trace2: fix tracing when NO_PTHREADS is defined
Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 17:27:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190521212744.GC14807@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.222.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 12:33:58PM -0700, Jeff Hostetler via GitGitGadget wrote:

> As Duy suggested, pthread_getspecific() just returns NULL when NO_PTHREADS
> is defined. And pthread_setspecific() silently does not nothing. So this
> problem was hidden from view.
> 
> I have to wonder if we should update pthread_*specific() to call BUG() when
> NO_PTHREADS is defined as a way to catch unguarded usages easier or make
> this issue more clear.

I think it should actually store the data asked for by the caller, as if
we were the single thread running. We discussed this as the time of
refactoring NO_PTHREADS, but there was only one caller that would have
benefited. Now there are two. ;)

Discussion in the subthread of this patch:

  https://public-inbox.org/git/20181027071003.1347-2-pclouds@gmail.com/

-Peff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-21 21:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-21 19:33 [PATCH 0/1] trace2: fix tracing when NO_PTHREADS is defined Jeff Hostetler via GitGitGadget
2019-05-21 19:33 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Jeff Hostetler via GitGitGadget
2019-05-21 21:27 ` Jeff King [this message]
2019-05-22 13:23   ` [PATCH 0/1] " Jeff Hostetler
2019-05-23  5:51     ` Jeff King
2019-05-23 13:55       ` Jeff Hostetler
2019-05-25 10:43       ` Duy Nguyen
2019-05-28  6:28         ` Jeff King
2019-05-28 14:57           ` Jeff Hostetler
2019-05-28 17:14     ` Junio C Hamano

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