set_tid_address

Section: System Calls (2)
Updated: 202-0-08
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NAME

set_tid_address - set pointer to thread ID  

LIBRARY

Standard C library (libc,~-lc)  

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/syscall.h>      /* Definition of SYS_* constants */
#include <unistd.h>
pid_t syscall(SYS_set_tid_address, int *tidptr);

Note: glibc provides no wrapper for set_tid_address(), necessitating the use of syscall(2).  

DESCRIPTION

For each thread, the kernel maintains two attributes (addresses) called set_child_tid and clear_child_tid. These two attributes contain the value NULL by default.

set_child_tid

If a thread is started using clone(2) with the CLONE_CHILD_SETTID flag, set_child_tid is set to the value passed in the ctid argument of that system call.

When set_child_tid is set, the very first thing the new thread does is to write its thread ID at this address.

clear_child_tid

If a thread is started using clone(2) with the CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID flag, clear_child_tid is set to the value passed in the ctid argument of that system call. The system call set_tid_address() sets the clear_child_tid value for the calling thread to tidptr. When a thread whose clear_child_tid is not NULL terminates, then, if the thread is sharing memory with other threads, then 0 is written at the address specified in clear_child_tid and the kernel performs the following operation: futex(clear_child_tid, FUTEX_WAKE, 1, NULL, NULL, 0); The effect of this operation is to wake a single thread that is performing a futex wait on the memory location. Errors from the futex wake operation are ignored.

 

RETURN VALUE

set_tid_address() always returns the caller's thread ID.  

ERRORS

set_tid_address() always succeeds.  

STANDARDS

Linux.  

HISTORY

Linux 2.5.48. Details as given here are valid since Linux 2.5.49.  

SEE ALSO

clone(2), futex(2), gettid(2)

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