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From: Peng Haitao <penght-BthXqXjhjHXQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] exit.3: ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is not thread-safe
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 10:30:29 +0800
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On 05/19/2013 02:30 AM, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> 
> Ouch! Really? so one cannot call exit(3) from a multithreaded program?
> This seems a clear violation of the standard. 
> 

Yes.
I make a test program to test exit(3) which is not thread-safe.

$ gcc -o exit exit.c -lpthread
$ ./exit
Goodbye.
...
Goodbye.
Segmentation fault

> Could you provide some pointers to more information on this point (e.g., URL
> of mail thread archive discussions.)
> 

http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-03/msg00004.html


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Peng

> Thanks,
> 
> Michael
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <unistd.h>

long long int i = 0;

static void bye (void)
{
	printf ("Goodbye.\n");
}

void *thread_severity()
{
	while (1) {
		atexit(bye);
		i++;
		if ( i >= 1000000) {
			printf("i is enough.\n");
			return NULL;
		}
	}

	return NULL;
}

int main (void)
{
	pthread_t thread_severity_id, thread_fmtmsg_id;

	pthread_create(&thread_fmtmsg_id, NULL, thread_severity, NULL);

	while(1) {
		if (i >= 500000)
			exit(0);
		usleep(1000);
	}
}


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