Re: [Valgrind-developers] VG_(gettid)

[Nicholas N. <nj...@ca...>]

Hi,

I don't understand this stuff so well, but here goes anyway...

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Tom Hughes wrote:

> The problem is that VG_(gettid) needs to get the ID of the current
> thread and it assumes that if the gettid system call returns ENOSYS
> then the getpid system call will do that.

Is that assumption valid?

> This seems to work, but it is horrible, so what do people think about
> putting it in? or does anybody have a better way to get the real ID of
> the current thread on these systems?

What does the patch look like?  Is it big, or small but conceptually 
horrible?  If the latter, I would say put it in if it works and fixes a 
problem that is affecting a number of people.  Just my two cents.

N