From 80e6061ac5deca193759b979d34906bfc9b857ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Andersen Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 09:32:52 +0000 Subject: Several test suite updates. The testatexit, teston_exit, and pthread tests were contributed by Stefan Soucek --- test/pthread/ex4.c | 107 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 107 insertions(+) create mode 100644 test/pthread/ex4.c (limited to 'test/pthread/ex4.c') diff --git a/test/pthread/ex4.c b/test/pthread/ex4.c new file mode 100644 index 000000000..11a09f013 --- /dev/null +++ b/test/pthread/ex4.c @@ -0,0 +1,107 @@ +/* Making a library function that uses static variables thread-safe. + Illustrates: thread-specific data, pthread_once(). */ + +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include + +/* This is a typical example of a library function that uses + static variables to accumulate results between calls. + Here, it just returns the concatenation of all string arguments + that were given to it. */ + +#if 0 + +char * str_accumulate(char * s) +{ + static char accu[1024] = { 0 }; + strcat(accu, s); + return accu; +} + +#endif + +/* Of course, this cannot be used in a multi-threaded program + because all threads store "accu" at the same location. + So, we'll use thread-specific data to have a different "accu" + for each thread. */ + +/* Key identifying the thread-specific data */ +static pthread_key_t str_key; +/* "Once" variable ensuring that the key for str_alloc will be allocated + exactly once. */ +static pthread_once_t str_alloc_key_once = PTHREAD_ONCE_INIT; + +/* Forward functions */ +static void str_alloc_key(void); +static void str_alloc_destroy_accu(void * accu); + +/* Thread-safe version of str_accumulate */ + +char * str_accumulate(const char * s) +{ + char * accu; + + /* Make sure the key is allocated */ + pthread_once(&str_alloc_key_once, str_alloc_key); + /* Get the thread-specific data associated with the key */ + accu = (char *) pthread_getspecific(str_key); + /* It's initially NULL, meaning that we must allocate the buffer first. */ + if (accu == NULL) { + accu = malloc(1024); + if (accu == NULL) return NULL; + accu[0] = 0; + /* Store the buffer pointer in the thread-specific data. */ + pthread_setspecific(str_key, (void *) accu); + printf("Thread %lx: allocating buffer at %p\n", pthread_self(), accu); + } + /* Now we can use accu just as in the non thread-safe code. */ + strcat(accu, s); + return accu; +} + +/* Function to allocate the key for str_alloc thread-specific data. */ + +static void str_alloc_key(void) +{ + pthread_key_create(&str_key, str_alloc_destroy_accu); + printf("Thread %lx: allocated key %d\n", pthread_self(), str_key); +} + +/* Function to free the buffer when the thread exits. */ +/* Called only when the thread-specific data is not NULL. */ + +static void str_alloc_destroy_accu(void * accu) +{ + printf("Thread %lx: freeing buffer at %p\n", pthread_self(), accu); + free(accu); +} + +/* Test program */ + +void * process(void * arg) +{ + char * res; + res = str_accumulate("Result of "); + res = str_accumulate((char *) arg); + res = str_accumulate(" thread"); + printf("Thread %lx: \"%s\"\n", pthread_self(), res); + return NULL; +} + +int main(int argc, char ** argv) +{ + char * res; + pthread_t th1, th2; + + res = str_accumulate("Result of "); + pthread_create(&th1, NULL, process, (void *) "first"); + pthread_create(&th2, NULL, process, (void *) "second"); + res = str_accumulate("initial thread"); + printf("Thread %lx: \"%s\"\n", pthread_self(), res); + pthread_join(th1, NULL); + pthread_join(th2, NULL); + exit(0); +} -- cgit v1.2.3