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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 1/5] glibc: Perform rseq(2) registration at nptl init and thread creation
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* Rich Felker:

> On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 06:39:04PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Rich Felker:
>> 
>> > On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 12:05:20PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>> >> There has been presumptions about signals being blocked when the thread
>> >> exits throughout this email thread. Out of curiosity, what code is
>> >> responsible for disabling signals in this situation ? Related to this,
>> >> is it valid to access a IE model TLS variable from a signal handler at
>> >> _any_ point where the signal handler nests over thread's execution ?
>> >> This includes early start and just before invoking the exit system call.
>> >
>> > It should be valid to access *any* TLS object like this, but the
>> > standards don't cover it well.
>> 
>> C++ makes it undefined:
>> 
>>   <http://eel.is/c++draft/support.signal#def:evaluation,signal-safe>
>
> C also leaves access to pretty much anything from a signal handler
> undefined, but that makes signals basically useless.

Access to atomic variables of thread storage duration is defined,
though.

Thanks,
Florian