Re: thread leader death under strace (was Re: [PATCH 03/10] ptrace: implement PTRACE_SEIZE)

From: Denys Vlasenko
Date: Fri Jun 03 2011 - 14:10:16 EST


On Friday 03 June 2011 17:29, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > > > > thread_leader(void *unused)
> > > > > {
> > > > > /* malloc gives sufficiently aligned buffer.
> > > > > * long buf[] does not! (on ia64).
> > > > > */
> > > > > clone2(thread1, malloc(16 * 1024), 16 * 1024, 0
> > > >
> > > > Probably because of this clone2.
> >
> > This seems to be not a problem (it is defined to clone()).
>
> Doesn't matter.
>
> Unlike pthread_create() which uses CLONE_SETTLS, this doesn't setup
> the tls area, and I assume you used -lpthread. In this case it is clear
> why raise() doesn't work, pt-raise.c thinks that THREAD_GETMEM(tid)
> should always work.

I don't link against pthread.

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