Documenting MT-safe vs. MT-unsafe.
Peng,
The work that you are doing documenting multithreading safety in the linux kernel man pages is excellent, and very useful. Thank you for working on this.
Michael, Peng,
At present I am a little worried that glibc is going to document what we want to be true e.g. MT-unsafe, but that the linux kernel man pages project is going to document what is actually implemented e.g. MT-safe. This may lead users to believe functions are safe when they are not guaranteed to be so.
The other problem is that the two documents might
diverge and this information is very important.
What can we do to keep the two documents in sync?
When Alex completes his project we'll have MT-safety data (with a series of exceptions) for almost all of the glibc functions. Could we use that data to drive the generation of the attributes in the linux kernel man pages?
Comments?
Cheers,
Carlos.
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At present I am a little worried that glibc is going to document what we want to be true e.g. MT-unsafe, but that the linux kernel man pages project is going to document what is actually implemented e.g. MT-safe. This may lead users to believe functions are safe when they are not guaranteed to be so.
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The other problem is that the two documents might diverge and this information is very important.
What can we do to keep the two documents in sync?
At present, when make the patch, I will look up Alex's result (branch lxoliva/thread-safety-docs).
If thread-safety level is the same with Alex or POSIX, I will send the patch. otherwise, the patch will be put off.
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When Alex completes his project we'll have MT-safety data (with a series of exceptions) for almost all of the glibc functions. Could we use that data to drive the generation of the attributes in the linux kernel man pages?
Maybe this will wait for a long time:(
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Best Regards, Peng
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Comments?
Cheers,
Carlos.
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