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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libpthread/thread thr_attr_init.cthr_init.c
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On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Scott Long wrote:

> Daniel Eischen wrote:
>
> >>* Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> [050213 20:30] wrote:
> >>
> >>>This works for all threads but the initial thread.  Gstreamer uses this
> >>>thread for most of its operations.  That stack size was set to be 1 MB
> >>>when gstreamer really wanted 2.  For all other thread problems, yes, I
> >>>used pthread_attr_setstacksize() as the solution.
> >>
> >>Can't you wrap main and bounce into it with a thread that has been
> >>created using pthread_attr_setstacksize()?
> >
> >
> > Exactly!
> >
>
> Again, I think that you have to look at the problem of supporting apps
> that are written in a linux-centric way by authors who aren't interested
> in merging back changes that complicate the code.

I (think) we're talking about existing patches to ports.

<in-the-past>
The simple way get a bigger main thread stack is to create
another thread with larger stack to run whatever main runs.
There wasn't a need to have ports with reduced functionality
just because the main thread's stack wasn't large enough.
</in-the-past>

<now-in-libpthread>
We have a larger default stacksize for the main thread, so
this should solve any related problems that ports had.
</now-in-libpthread>

-- 
DE