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set_tid_address(2) System Calls Manual set_tid_address(2)
set_tid_address - set pointer to thread ID
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
#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).
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.
set_tid_address() always returns the caller's thread ID.
set_tid_address() always succeeds.
Linux.
Linux 2.5.48. Details as given here are valid since Linux 2.5.49.
clone(2), futex(2), gettid(2)
Linux man-pages 6.04 2023-03-30 set_tid_address(2)
Pages that refer to this page: clone(2), prctl(2), syscalls(2), futex(7)