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PTHREAD_ATTR_SETSTACKSIZE(3) Linux Programmer's Manual PTHREAD_ATTR_SETSTACKSIZE(3)
pthread_attr_setstacksize, pthread_attr_getstacksize - set/get stack size
attribute in thread attributes object
#include <pthread.h>
int pthread_attr_setstacksize(pthread_attr_t *attr, size_t stacksize);
int pthread_attr_getstacksize(pthread_attr_t *attr, size_t *stacksize);
Compile and link with -pthread.
The pthread_attr_setstacksize() function sets the stack size attribute of the
thread attributes object referred to by attr to the value specified in
stacksize.
The stack size attribute determines the minimum size (in bytes) that will be
allocated for threads created using the thread attributes object attr.
The pthread_attr_getstacksize() function returns the stack size attribute of
the thread attributes object referred to by attr in the buffer pointed to by
stacksize.
On success, these functions return 0; on error, they return a nonzero error
number.
pthread_attr_setstacksize() can fail with the following error:
EINVAL The stack size is less than PTHREAD_STACK_MIN (16384) bytes.
On some systems, pthread_attr_setstacksize() can fail with the error EINVAL if
stacksize is not a multiple of the system page size.
These functions are provided by glibc since version 2.1.
POSIX.1-2001.
See pthread_create(3).
For details on the default stack size of new threads, see pthread_create(3).
A thread's stack size is fixed at the time of thread creation. Only the main
thread can dynamically grow its stack.
The pthread_attr_setstack(3) function allows an application to set both the
size and location of a caller-allocated stack that is to be used by a thread.
As at glibc 2.8, if the specified stacksize is not a multiple of STACK_ALIGN
(16 bytes on most architectures), it may be rounded downward, in violation of
POSIX.1-2001, which says that the allocated stack will be at least stacksize
bytes.
getrlimit(2), pthread_attr_init(3), pthread_attr_setguardsize(3),
pthread_attr_setstack(3), pthread_create(3), pthreads(7)
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Linux 2008-11-05 PTHREAD_ATTR_SETSTACKSIZE(3)
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