some functions that should have been testing whether pthread_self()
had been called and initialized the thread pointer were instead
testing whether pthread_create() had been called and actually made the
program "threaded". while it's unlikely any mismatch would occur in
real-world problems, this could have introduced subtle bugs. now, we
store the address of the main thread's thread descriptor in the libc
structure and use its presence as a flag that the thread register is
initialized. note that after fork, the calling thread (not necessarily
the original main thread) is the new main thread.

this also de-uglifies the dummy function aliasing a bit.

we already checked before making the syscall, but it's possible that a
signal handler interrupted the blocking syscall and disabled
cancellation, and that this is the cause of EINTR. in this case, the
old behavior was testably wrong.

if the exit was caused by cancellation, __cancel has already set these
flags anyway.

cancellation frames were not correctly popped, so this usage would not
only loop, but also reuse discarded and invalid parts of the stack.

don't waste time (and significant code size due to function call
overhead!) setting errno when the result of a syscall does not matter
or when it can't fail.