Re: lib/52386: pthread(3) doesn't respect PTHREAD_DESTRUCTOR_ITERATIONS

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Jul 9,  5:20pm, joerg%bec.de@localhost (Joerg Sonnenberger) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: lib/52386: pthread(3) doesn't respect PTHREAD_DESTRUCTOR_ITER

|  On Sun, Jul 09, 2017 at 03:30:00PM +0000, n54%gmx.com@localhost wrote:
|  > PTHREAD_DESTRUCTOR_ITERATIONS is not respected as the maximum number of destructor iterations.
|  
|  The test case is incorrect. PTHREAD_DESTRUCTOR_ITERATIONS specifies a
|  lower limit on the number of iterations performed. It is explicitly not
|  a hard limit. To quote POSIX:
|  
|  Calling pthread_setspecific() from a thread-specific data destructor
|  routine may result either in lost storage (after at least
|  PTHREAD_DESTRUCTOR_ITERATIONS attempts at destruction) or in an infinite
|  loop.

I agree, but making the code using the iteration constant we advertise
is simple enough.

christos