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Date:      Fri, 15 Aug 1997 02:49:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Andrew N. Edmond" <edmond@shaman.lycaeum.org>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   3.0: problems with libc_r and native pthreads
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970815023942.3581S-100000@necropolis.org>
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I upgraded one of my single processor machines to FreeBSD 3.0 (august 11th
SNAP) to test out the new native pthreads, and have a question to ask (or
perhaps error to report).

I wrote a multithreaded program that's running a thread with listen() and
an accept() in a loop, that when hit reads about 512 bytes of data from
the socket, spawns a new thread and goes back to accept() wait for
another connection.

Now, with mit-pthreads, I can throw a good 500 hits per second into this
mechanism and it runs perfectly without any loss of data.  If instead I
use libc_r, I get this error message:

error reading stream message: Resource temporarily unavailable
error reading stream message: Resource temporarily unavailable
error reading stream message: Resource temporarily unavailable
error reading stream message: Resource temporarily unavailable
error reading stream message: Resource temporarily unavailable

This is generated from this code:

   listen(socketOpen, QUEUED_CONNECTS);
   do {
      ptrbuf = buf = (char *) malloc (PACKET_SIZE);
      bzero(buf, sizeof(buf));
      msgSock = accept(socketOpen, 0, 0);
      if (msgSock == -1) perror ("error on accept");
      else do {
         if ((nread = read(msgSock, ptrbuf, 256)) < 0) 
--->        perror("error reading stream message");
         ptrbuf += nread;
         } while (nread != 0);
      close(msgSock);
      // add to thread pool
      tpool_add_work(threadPool, myFunction, (void *)buf);
      } while (1);

I assume this is because there are not enough file descriptors available
for some reason in libc_r (but there is in mit-pthreads!).  I even set:

#define FD_SETSIZE 8192

In the source of my program before any other includes.

Is this a libc_r error or am I missing something?

Andy

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