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Date:      Fri, 7 May 1999 13:10:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Debugging FreeBSD user threads with gdb
Message-ID:  <199905072010.NAA46817@apollo.backplane.com>
References:   <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905072102080.10400-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>

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:--- uthread_create.c	1999/03/23 05:07:55	1.12
:+++ uthread_create.c	1999/05/06 15:27:33
:@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@
: #include "pthread_private.h"
: #include "libc_private.h"
: 
:+static int next_tid = 1;
:+
: int
: pthread_create(pthread_t * thread, const pthread_attr_t * attr,
: 	       void *(*start_routine) (void *), void *arg)
:@@ -87,6 +89,7 @@
: 		} else {
: 			/* Initialise the thread structure: */
: 			memset(new_thread, 0, sizeof(struct pthread));
:+			new_thread->tid = next_tid++;
:
:Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
:Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037

    Hmmm.   tid is only an int and some programs which create and destroy
    threads a lot are almost certainly going to overflow it.  4 billion
    is not hard to reach.  This can result in duplicate tid's.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>




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