/* I don't think this is a very good test .. all this sleepery is highly confusing. */ /* test child thread inheriting data */ #include #include #include static volatile int shared[2]; static void *t1(void *v) { volatile int *ip = (int *)v; if (0) printf("ta W\n"); *ip += 44; *ip *= 2; sleep(1); return 0; } static void *t2(void *v) { volatile int *ip = (int *)v; sleep(2); if (0) printf("tb W\n"); *ip += 88; *ip *= 3; sleep(1); return 0; } int main(void) { pthread_t a, b; volatile int ret = 0; sleep(0); shared[0] = 22; shared[1] = 77; pthread_create(&a, NULL, t1, (void *)&shared[0]); // a steals shared[0] from root thread, so is excl(a) pthread_create(&b, NULL, t2, (void *)&shared[1]); // b steals shared[1] from root thread, so is excl(b) pthread_join(a, NULL); // b's stuff (shared[1]) still belongs to b, so is excl(b) // ret is excl(root), and shared[0] is re-acquired as excl(root) // since a joined to root if (0) printf("r R1\n"); ret += shared[0]; /* no error - a is finished */ // but shared[1] is excl(b); hence we're reading excl(b) // without a lock and without a dependency edge if (0) printf("r R2\n"); ret += shared[1]; /* expect error - b has not finished, so we can't touch shared[1] yet */ pthread_join(b, NULL); return ret; }