GNU bug report logs - #38632
27.0.50; Emacs process name is changed permanently upon creating a named thread

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 06:45:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 39003

Found in versions 27.0.50, 27.0.60

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #65 received at 38632 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 38632 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rpluim <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#38632: 27.0.50; Emacs process name is changed permanently 
 upon creating a named thread
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 17:46:49 +0100

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
7 jan. 2020 kl. 16.45 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:

> This line cannot be deleted, as it will cause systhread.c fail to
> compile on MS-Windows.

Oops! Reinstated.

However, isn't thread_start_address inherently racy? It doesn't matter much since it will only ever have a single value (run_thread), but it does violate layering. That problem won't be addressed in this patch, however.

> And this comment on thread.h:

Edited.

Thanks for the review! Patch updated.


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