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RELEASE 1.9.0
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-(2005-05-06)
+(2005-05-09)
General
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@@ -16,9 +16,13 @@ http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/manual/index.html
Bugs fixed
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-* Thread Specific Data (TSD) key management has been altered to
-eliminate a source of resource leakage (HANDLEs plus memory).
-Thanks to Richard Hughes at Aculab for identifying the leak.
+* Thread Specific Data (TSD) key management has been ammended to
+eliminate a source of (what was effectively) resource leakage (HANDLEs
+plus memory).
+Thanks to Richard Hughes at Aculab for identifying and locating the leak.
+
+* TSD key destructors are now processed up to PTHREAD_DESTRUCTOR_ITERATIONS
+times (was always in pthread.h) instead of just once.
* Fix a semaphore accounting race between sem_post/sem_post_multiple
and sem_wait cancellation. This is the same issue as with
@@ -40,6 +44,11 @@ from the last release. It's not a part of the regular test suite
because it can take awhile to run. To run it:
nmake clean VC-stress
+* tsd2.c - tests that key destructors are re-run if the tsd key value is
+not NULL after the destructor routine has run. Also tests that
+pthread_setspecific() and pthread_getspecific() are callable from
+destructors.
+
RELEASE 1.8.0
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