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Re: [PATCH] Disable single thread optimization for open_memstream
- From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs dot nagy at arm dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Cc: nd at arm dot com, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 10:15:07 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable single thread optimization for open_memstream
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- References: <59662DA4.1000702@arm.com>
On 07/12/2017 10:09 AM, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> Single thread optimization is valid if at thread creation time the
> optimization can be disabled. This is in principle true for all
> stream objects that user code can access (and thus needs locking),
> using the same internal list as fflush(0) uses. However in glibc
> open_memstream is not on that list (BZ 21735) so the optimization
> has to be disabled.
>
> 2017-07-12 Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
>
> * libio/memstream.c (__open_memstream): Set _IO_FLAGS2_NEED_LOCK.
> * libio/wmemstream.c (open_wmemstream): Likewise.
>
IIUC we can avoid this patch if we fix BZ #21735?
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Cheers,
Carlos.