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authorcl <cl@NetBSD.org>2003-11-27 16:30:54 +0000
committercl <cl@NetBSD.org>2003-11-27 16:30:54 +0000
commit2c9b7b1eb7cf6199e202d971ea1e1b784bbeaa0e (patch)
treed10a35fef8c2699a9ae40b580cc8c3267cd2390b /lib/libpthread/pthread.3
parent4f9a822f1f7fb5c8d0a802b121c9fd4036d4b41c (diff)
Set default stack size to the current limit on the stack size as set
with the shell's command to change limits. Make the PTHREAD_STACKSIZE environment variable override the default stack size. The old fixed stack size behaviour can be enable with PT_FIXEDSTACKSIZE_LG when building libpthread.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libpthread/pthread.3')
-rw-r--r--lib/libpthread/pthread.316
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libpthread/pthread.3 b/lib/libpthread/pthread.3
index 0407b8cc158..b6e01444658 100644
--- a/lib/libpthread/pthread.3
+++ b/lib/libpthread/pthread.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: pthread.3,v 1.2 2003/07/26 19:25:06 salo Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: pthread.3,v 1.3 2003/11/27 16:30:54 cl Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2003 Hubert Feyrer <hubertf@NetBSD.org>
.\" and Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd June 21, 2003
+.Dd November 27, 2003
.Dt PTHREAD 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -88,6 +88,18 @@ program found in
Integer value giving the round-robin interval in ms.
The default is 100.
If set to 0, timer-based round-robin scheduling is disabled.
+.It Ev PTHREAD_STACKSIZE
+Integer value giving the stack size in kilobytes.
+This allows to set a smaller stack size than the default stack size.
+The default stack size is the current limit on the stack size as
+set with the shell's command to change limits
+.Ic ( limit
+for
+.Xr csh 1 ,
+or
+.Ic ulimit
+for
+.Xr sh 1 ) .
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr pthread_attr 3 ,