Re: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 01:48:55AM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 12:30:40AM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > and pthread_attr_setstacksize returns EINVAL if
> > stacksize > _SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN (=59) as per /usr/include/sys/unistd.h.
> 
> No, it returns EINVAL if stacksize < sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN).
> Small difference. We map that to getpagesize(), but that's not a fixed
> value on some platforms.

I thought "59 is rather small"...

So it sounds as though it is safe to use sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN)
instead of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN ? (They are meant to achieve the same thing?)

Cheers,

Patrick