/* * Copyright (c) 2006-2021, RT-Thread Development Team * * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 * * Change Logs: * Date Author Notes */ /* Making a library function that uses static variables thread-safe. Illustrates: thread-specific data, pthread_once(). */ #include #include #include #include #include /* This is a typical example of a library function that uses static variables to accumulate results between calls. Here, it just returns the concatenation of all string arguments that were given to it. */ #if 0 char * str_accumulate(char * s) { static char accu[1024] = { 0 }; strcat(accu, s); return accu; } #endif /* Of course, this cannot be used in a multi-threaded program because all threads store "accu" at the same location. So, we'll use thread-specific data to have a different "accu" for each thread. */ /* Key identifying the thread-specific data */ static pthread_key_t str_key; /* "Once" variable ensuring that the key for str_alloc will be allocated exactly once. */ static pthread_once_t str_alloc_key_once = PTHREAD_ONCE_INIT; /* Forward functions */ static void str_alloc_key(void); static void str_alloc_destroy_accu(void * accu); /* Thread-safe version of str_accumulate */ char * str_accumulate(const char * s) { char * accu; /* Make sure the key is allocated */ pthread_once(&str_alloc_key_once, str_alloc_key); /* Get the thread-specific data associated with the key */ accu = (char *) pthread_getspecific(str_key); /* It's initially NULL, meaning that we must allocate the buffer first. */ if (accu == NULL) { accu = (char *)malloc(1024); if (accu == NULL) return NULL; accu[0] = 0; /* Store the buffer pointer in the thread-specific data. */ pthread_setspecific(str_key, (void *) accu); printf("Thread %lx: allocating buffer at %p\n", pthread_self(), accu); } /* Now we can use accu just as in the non thread-safe code. */ strcat(accu, s); return accu; } /* Function to allocate the key for str_alloc thread-specific data. */ static void str_alloc_key(void) { pthread_key_create(&str_key, str_alloc_destroy_accu); printf("Thread %lx: allocated key %d\n", pthread_self(), str_key); } /* Function to free the buffer when the thread exits. */ /* Called only when the thread-specific data is not NULL. */ static void str_alloc_destroy_accu(void * accu) { printf("Thread %lx: freeing buffer at %p\n", pthread_self(), accu); free(accu); } /* Test program */ static void *process(void * arg) { char *res; res = str_accumulate("Result of "); res = str_accumulate((char *) arg); res = str_accumulate(" thread"); printf("Thread %lx: \"%s\"\n", pthread_self(), res); return NULL; } int libc_ex4() { char * res; pthread_t th1, th2; // res = str_accumulate("Result of "); pthread_create(&th1, NULL, process, (void *) "first"); pthread_create(&th2, NULL, process, (void *) "second"); // res = str_accumulate("initial thread"); printf("Thread %lx: \"%s\"\n", pthread_self(), res); pthread_join(th1, NULL); pthread_join(th2, NULL); } #include FINSH_FUNCTION_EXPORT(libc_ex4, example 4 for libc);