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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:41:07 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:41:07 +0000 |
commit | 3af6d22bb3850ab2bac67287e3a3d3b0e32868e5 (patch) | |
tree | 3ee7a3ec64525911fa865bb984c86d997d855527 /man3/pthread_create.3 | |
parent | Adding debian version 6.05.01-1. (diff) | |
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Merging upstream version 6.7.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/man3/pthread_create.3 b/man3/pthread_create.3 index 268bfa0..beba117 100644 --- a/man3/pthread_create.3 +++ b/man3/pthread_create.3 @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ .\" .\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft .\" -.TH pthread_create 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.TH pthread_create 3 2024-02-12 "Linux man-pages 6.7" .SH NAME pthread_create \- create a new thread .SH LIBRARY @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ POSIX threads library .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include <pthread.h> -.PP +.P .BI "int pthread_create(pthread_t *restrict " thread , .BI " const pthread_attr_t *restrict " attr , .BI " void *(*" start_routine ")(void *)," @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ The new thread starts execution by invoking .I arg is passed as the sole argument of .IR start_routine (). -.PP +.P The new thread terminates in one of the following ways: .IP \[bu] 3 It calls @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Any of the threads in the process calls or the main thread performs a return from .IR main (). This causes the termination of all threads in the process. -.PP +.P The .I attr argument points to a @@ -67,14 +67,14 @@ If .I attr is NULL, then the thread is created with default attributes. -.PP +.P Before returning, a successful call to .BR pthread_create () stores the ID of the new thread in the buffer pointed to by .IR thread ; this identifier is used to refer to the thread in subsequent calls to other pthreads functions. -.PP +.P The new thread inherits a copy of the creating thread's signal mask .RB ( pthread_sigmask (3)). The set of pending signals for the new thread is empty @@ -82,10 +82,10 @@ The set of pending signals for the new thread is empty The new thread does not inherit the creating thread's alternate signal stack .RB ( sigaltstack (2)). -.PP +.P The new thread inherits the calling thread's floating-point environment .RB ( fenv (3)). -.PP +.P The initial value of the new thread's CPU-time clock is 0 (see .BR pthread_getcpuclockid (3)). @@ -148,7 +148,6 @@ T{ .BR pthread_create () T} Thread safety MT-Safe .TE -.sp 1 .SH STANDARDS POSIX.1-2008. .SH HISTORY @@ -165,7 +164,7 @@ after a call to .BR pthread_create (), it is indeterminate which thread\[em]the caller or the new thread\[em]will next execute. -.PP +.P A thread may either be .I joinable or @@ -185,7 +184,7 @@ By default, a new thread is created in a joinable state, unless .I attr was set to create the thread in a detached state (using .BR pthread_attr_setdetachstate (3)). -.PP +.P Under the NPTL threading implementation, if the .B RLIMIT_STACK soft resource limit @@ -201,23 +200,8 @@ in order to obtain a stack size other than the default. If the .B RLIMIT_STACK resource limit is set to "unlimited", -a per-architecture value is used for the stack size. -Here is the value for a few architectures: -.RS -.TS -allbox; -lb lb -l r. -Architecture Default stack size -i386 2 MB -IA-64 32 MB -PowerPC 4 MB -S/390 2 MB -Sparc-32 2 MB -Sparc-64 4 MB -x86_64 2 MB -.TE -.RE +a per-architecture value is used for the stack size: +2 MB on most architectures; 4 MB on POWER and Sparc-64. .SH BUGS In the obsolete LinuxThreads implementation, each of the threads in a process has a different process ID. @@ -228,12 +212,12 @@ and is the source of many other nonconformances to the standard; see The program below demonstrates the use of .BR pthread_create (), as well as a number of other functions in the pthreads API. -.PP +.P In the following run, on a system providing the NPTL threading implementation, the stack size defaults to the value given by the "stack size" resource limit: -.PP +.P .in +4n .EX .RB "$" " ulimit \-s" @@ -247,11 +231,11 @@ Joined with thread 2; returned value was SALUT Joined with thread 3; returned value was SERVUS .EE .in -.PP +.P In the next run, the program explicitly sets a stack size of 1\ MB (using .BR pthread_attr_setstacksize (3)) for the created threads: -.PP +.P .in +4n .EX .RB "$" " ./a.out \-s 0x100000 hola salut servus" |