Subj : Re: pthread_getspecific or __thread for signal handler?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Alexander Terekhov
Date : Wed Feb 02 2005 01:06 pm


Joseph Seigh wrote:
[...]
> Async safety isn't an issue if you don't use async unsafe functions
> in your signal handler.  

__thread stuff is nothing but syntactic sugar for pthread_[get/set]
specific(). And all pthread calls are async-signal-unsafe.

regards,
alexander.

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