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diff --git a/upstream/debian-bookworm/man2/set_tid_address.2 b/upstream/debian-bookworm/man2/set_tid_address.2 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bd2d6e04 --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/debian-bookworm/man2/set_tid_address.2 @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@ +.\" Copyright (C) 2004 Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl) +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.TH set_tid_address 2 2022-10-30 "Linux man-pages 6.03" +.SH NAME +set_tid_address \- set pointer to thread ID +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.BR "#include <sys/syscall.h>" " /* Definition of " SYS_* " constants */" +.B #include <unistd.h> +.PP +.BI "pid_t syscall(SYS_set_tid_address, int *" tidptr ); +.fi +.PP +.IR Note : +glibc provides no wrapper for +.BR set_tid_address (), +necessitating the use of +.BR syscall (2). +.SH DESCRIPTION +For each thread, the kernel maintains two attributes (addresses) called +.I set_child_tid +and +.IR clear_child_tid . +These two attributes contain the value NULL by default. +.TP +.I set_child_tid +If a thread is started using +.BR clone (2) +with the +.B CLONE_CHILD_SETTID +flag, +.I set_child_tid +is set to the value passed in the +.I ctid +argument of that system call. +.IP +When +.I set_child_tid +is set, the very first thing the new thread does +is to write its thread ID at this address. +.TP +.I clear_child_tid +If a thread is started using +.BR clone (2) +with the +.B CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID +flag, +.I clear_child_tid +is set to the value passed in the +.I ctid +argument of that system call. +.PP +The system call +.BR set_tid_address () +sets the +.I clear_child_tid +value for the calling thread to +.IR tidptr . +.PP +When a thread whose +.I clear_child_tid +is not NULL terminates, then, +if the thread is sharing memory with other threads, +then 0 is written at the address specified in +.I clear_child_tid +and the kernel performs the following operation: +.PP +.in +4n +.EX +futex(clear_child_tid, FUTEX_WAKE, 1, NULL, NULL, 0); +.EE +.in +.PP +The effect of this operation is to wake a single thread that +is performing a futex wait on the memory location. +Errors from the futex wake operation are ignored. +.SH RETURN VALUE +.BR set_tid_address () +always returns the caller's thread ID. +.SH ERRORS +.BR set_tid_address () +always succeeds. +.SH VERSIONS +This call is present since Linux 2.5.48. +Details as given here are valid since Linux 2.5.49. +.SH STANDARDS +This system call is Linux-specific. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR clone (2), +.BR futex (2), +.BR gettid (2) |