cvs commit: src/lib/libpthread/thread thr_attr_init.cthr_init.c thr_private.h thr_stack.c

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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Daniel Eischen wrote:
| On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Scott Long wrote:
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|>Daniel Eischen wrote:
|>
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|>>>* Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> [050213 20:30] wrote:
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|>>>
|>>>>This works for all threads but the initial thread.  Gstreamer uses this
|>>>>thread for most of its operations.  That stack size was set to be 1 MB
|>>>>when gstreamer really wanted 2.  For all other thread problems, yes, I
|>>>>used pthread_attr_setstacksize() as the solution.
|>>>
|>>>Can't you wrap main and bounce into it with a thread that has been
|>>>created using pthread_attr_setstacksize()?
|>>
|>>
|>>Exactly!
|>>
|>
|>Again, I think that you have to look at the problem of supporting apps
|>that are written in a linux-centric way by authors who aren't interested
|>in merging back changes that complicate the code.
|
|
| I (think) we're talking about existing patches to ports.
|
| <in-the-past>
| The simple way get a bigger main thread stack is to create
| another thread with larger stack to run whatever main runs.
| There wasn't a need to have ports with reduced functionality
| just because the main thread's stack wasn't large enough.
| </in-the-past>

I couldn't find an easy way to do that with cothreads in gstreamer.
However, this is exactly what I did with other ports.

|
| <now-in-libpthread>
| We have a larger default stacksize for the main thread, so
| this should solve any related problems that ports had.
| </now-in-libpthread>

Yep, and I'm happy to have it (don't get me wrong).  However, I was
hoping to have a way to know when it was safe to remove at least the
gstreamer hack, and that's why I asked for the __FreeBSD_version bump.

Joe

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