Additional bug in _POSIX_Keys_Run_destructors()?
Phil Torre
ptorre at zetron.com
Fri Nov 2 21:38:26 UTC 2007
On Fri 02-Nov-07 6:55 AM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>
> Phil Torre wrote:
>> Hi Joel,
>>
>> Last week you clued me in to a patch that I was missing in my outdated
>> 4.6.0-derived source tree. (Specifically, pthread_getspecific() was
>> indexing into the key values with key->Values[class] instead of
>> key->Values[api].) I applied that patch and things are working well.
>>
>> I started looking around, and I see what may be the same bug in another
>> place; this time it's _POSIX_Keys_Run_destructors(). That function is
>> also indexing into the Values array using class rather than API. I
>> looked at your current CVS version and it's doing the same thing.
>> Is this a bug that got missed when the previous one was patched?
>>
>>
> Looks like it to me. Attached is a patch. Does it look OK to you?
Yep, looks fine.
> FWIW keys have an issue when the number of threads is
> configured as unlimited. A while back, I suggested going to
> a hash map for thread keys but never got anywhere with it.
I was wondering what would happen if more threads were allocated after
a key had been created. I'll add that to my list of things to watch
out for...
Thanks,
-Phil
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