Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libpthread

[Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 06:55:00PM -0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:

> In article <724af477-010b-9ddf-6ece-e23d7cf59079%gmx.com@localhost>,
> Kamil Rytarowski  <n54%gmx.com@localhost> wrote:
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> >On 31.01.2020 03:38, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> >> And it is fixed now.
> >> 
> >> christos
> >> 
> >
> >OK. I am going to submit a bug report upstream and get some feedback
> >what is the way forward here, delaying initialization.
> 
> I think that the way forward (on our side) is to do away with libpthread,
> merge it with libc and kill all the stub nonsense.

Agreed.

pthread__init() does some expensive stuff like _lwp_ctl().  I think we can
safely & without hacks defer a lot of that till the first pthread_create().

Andrew