Performance issue

[Daniel Eischen]

On Tue, 10 May 2005, Suleiman Souhlal wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On May 10, 2005, at 1:24 AM, Daniel Eischen wrote:
>
> > No, libc_r wraps execve() and a lot of other syscalls that libpthread
> > or libthr don't need to.  Take a look at libc_r/uthread/
> > uthread_execve.c
> > and you will see it sets the signal mask before exec()ing.
>
> Couldn't we do the same thing in libpthread, in the not-threaded case?
> I apologize if I'm asking stupid questions.. :)

No ;-)  We don't want to wrap functions unecessarily.  Applications
not linked to a thread library still have to use the actual syscall,
so there's no point in wrapping extra functions just to make
sigprocmask() faster when linked with libpthread.

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DE