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Re: pthread_attr_init: default value of inhertished flag
- From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- To: Carmelo Amoroso <carmelo73 at gmail dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:06:37 +0200
- Subject: Re: pthread_attr_init: default value of inhertished flag
- References: <2ccd6e3c0706190520h6924d48i9c9899e1c7bb0dad@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 02:20:44PM +0200, Carmelo Amoroso wrote:
> according to the man pages, the default value for the inheritsched
> flag sholud be
> PTHREAD_EXPLICIT_SCHED, while a call to pthread_attr_init returns
> PTHREAD_INHERIT_SCHED.
> This is due to the pthread_attr_init that memset to 0 all the
> pthread_attr struct
> and the bit ATTR_FLAG_NOTINHERITSCHED is not set in the flags field.
>
> Looking at the POSIX standard, the default value is "unspecified"...
> so what is the correct
> value defined by glibc/Linux ? is the man page wrong or is it a bug into
> glibc?
man page is wrong.
Jakub