/* Setup of nscd worker threads. Linux verison. Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of the GNU C Library. Contributed by Ulrich Drepper , 2004. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ #include #include #include #include void setup_thread (struct database_dyn *db) { #ifdef __NR_set_tid_address /* Only supported when NPTL is used. */ char buf[100]; if (confstr (_CS_GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION, buf, sizeof (buf)) >= sizeof (buf) || strncmp (buf, "NPTL", 4) != 0) return; /* Do not try this at home, kids. We play with the SETTID address even thought the process is multi-threaded. This can only work since none of the threads ever terminates. */ INTERNAL_SYSCALL_DECL (err); int r = INTERNAL_SYSCALL (set_tid_address, err, 1, &db->head->nscd_certainly_running); if (!INTERNAL_SYSCALL_ERROR_P (r, err)) /* We know the kernel can reset this field when nscd terminates. So, set the field to a nonzero value which indicates that nscd is certainly running and clients can skip the test. */ db->head->nscd_certainly_running = 1; #endif }