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some of these were coming from stdio functions locking files without
unlocking them. I believe it's useful for this to throw a warning, so
I added a new macro that's self-documenting that the file will never
be unlocked to avoid the warning in the few places where it's wrong.
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these functions must behave as if they obtain the lock via flockfile
to satisfy POSIX requirements. since another thread can provably hold
the lock when they are called, they must wait to obtain the lock
before they can return, even if the correct return value could be
obtained without locking. in the case of fclose and freopen, failure
to do so could cause correct (albeit obscure) programs to crash or
otherwise misbehave; in the case of feof, ferror, and fwide, failure
to obtain the lock could sometimes return incorrect results. in any
case, having these functions proceed and return while another thread
held the lock was wrong.
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optimized to avoid allocation and return lines directly out of the
stream buffer whenever possible.
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previously, stdio used spinlocks, which would be unacceptable if we
ever add support for thread priorities, and which yielded
pathologically bad performance if an application attempted to use
flockfile on a key file as a major/primary locking mechanism.
i had held off on making this change for fear that it would hurt
performance in the non-threaded case, but actually support for
recursive locking had already inflicted that cost. by having the
internal locking functions store a flag indicating whether they need
to perform unlocking, rather than using the actual recursive lock
counter, i was able to combine the conditionals at unlock time,
eliminating any additional cost, and also avoid a nasty corner case
where a huge number of calls to ftrylockfile could cause deadlock
later at the point of internal locking.
this commit also fixes some issues with usage of pthread_self
conflicting with __attribute__((const)) which resulted in crashes with
some compiler versions/optimizations, mainly in flockfile prior to
pthread_create.
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the previous fix was incorrect, as it would prevent f->close(f) from
being called if fflush(f) failed. i believe this was the original
motivation for using | rather than ||. so now let's just use a second
statement to constrain the order of function calls, and to back to
using |.
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pcc turned up this bug by calling f->close(f) before fflush(f),
resulting in lost output and error on flush.
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