Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain)

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From	Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
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Subject	Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain)
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> The problem here is that this is not an interface that I/we design,
> but that this is supposed to emulate a C library interface. The
> description there is extremely concise, and in particular it doesn't
> foresee the possibility of failure of the call. (For other functions
> the standard would have some generic phrase "if you pass invalid input
> to the function the behavior is undefined".)

I would appreciate if members of the involved standardisation committees will
share their advices for proper and unambiguous interpretation of the discussed
specification and corresponding implementation details.


>> Is the completion of error detection and corresponding exception handling an
>> open issue also in the affected wrapper implementation?
> 
> No, I don't think that this is a general problem, since most of the
> C11 function foresee a mechanism to return error conditions. There are
> only a few functions like this one that don't have any at all.
> 
> What is generally happening, though, is that the error conditions that
> C11 foresees are only a subset of what POSIX provides. So sometimes
> there might be a loss of information.

I guess that this feature difference in the programming interfaces will lead to
a lot of more discussions between software developers, reviewers and testers. I
am curious on further clarifications.

Regards,
Markus

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Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) John Tsiombikas <nuclear@member.fsf.org> - 2012-09-27 03:38 +0000
  Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-09-26 20:50 -0700
    Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) John Tsiombikas <nuclear@member.fsf.org> - 2012-09-27 04:15 +0000
      Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Lorenzo Beretta <lory.fulgi@infinito.it> - 2012-09-27 16:35 +0200
        Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) John Tsiombikas <nuclear@member.fsf.org> - 2012-09-27 15:58 +0000
          Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Lorenzo Beretta <lory.fulgi@infinito.it> - 2012-09-27 18:27 +0200
            Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> - 2012-09-29 18:05 +0200
          Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) William Ahern <william@wilbur.25thandClement.com> - 2012-09-28 12:08 -0700
          Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-09-28 19:38 +0000
            Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) William Ahern <william@wilbur.25thandClement.com> - 2012-09-28 13:23 -0700
            Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Lorenzo Beretta <lory.fulgi@infinito.it> - 2012-09-29 18:35 +0200
          Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-09-28 15:50 -0400
            Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Lorenzo Beretta <lory.fulgi@infinito.it> - 2012-09-29 18:41 +0200
  Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2012-09-27 13:45 +0200
    Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) John Tsiombikas <nuclear@member.fsf.org> - 2012-09-27 16:14 +0000
      Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2012-09-28 12:05 +0200
        Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-09-28 03:39 -0700
        Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-09-28 08:23 -0400
          Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) John Tsiombikas <nuclear@member.fsf.org> - 2012-09-28 19:48 +0000
    Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Toby Douglass <a@b.com> - 2012-10-01 20:19 +0200
      Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-10-01 14:37 -0400
      Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-10-01 14:38 -0400
      Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-10-01 14:58 -0700
  Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@loria.fr> - 2012-09-28 20:22 +0200
    Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2012-09-30 23:13 +0200
      Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-09-30 14:28 -0700
        Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@loria.fr> - 2012-10-01 00:37 +0200
          Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@loria.fr> - 2012-10-01 00:44 +0200
            Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-09-30 19:48 -0400
              Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@loria.fr> - 2012-10-01 08:26 +0200
          Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2012-10-01 11:25 +0200
            Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@loria.fr> - 2012-10-01 11:47 +0200
              Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2012-10-01 12:05 +0200
                Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@loria.fr> - 2012-10-01 13:15 +0200
                Clarification for interface specification "C11 threads.h" Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2012-10-03 11:02 +0200
                Re: Clarification for interface specification "C11 threads.h" Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-10-03 13:29 -0700
                Re: Clarification for interface specification "C11 threads.h" Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@loria.fr> - 2012-10-04 13:35 +0200
                Re: Clarification for interface specification "C11 threads.h" Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2012-10-12 17:45 +0200
                Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2012-10-01 18:10 +0200
              Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Nick Bowler <nbowler@draconx.ca> - 2012-10-01 19:28 +0000
              Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-10-01 15:19 -0700
                Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-10-01 23:57 +0000
      Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain) Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@loria.fr> - 2012-10-02 14:48 +0200

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