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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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Cc: 38632 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rpluim <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#38632: 27.0.50; Emacs process name is changed permanently  upon creating a named thread
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 19:07:05 +0200

> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
> Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 17:46:49 +0100
> Cc: 38632 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rpluim <at> gmail.com
> 
> 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.

Yes, that should be a separate cleanup (and yes, we always set it to
the same function, so the race shouldn't matter in practice).
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