tss_set

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Defined in header <threads.h>
int tss_set( tss_t tss_id, void *val );
(since C11)

Sets the value of the thread-specific storage identified by tss_id for the current thread to val. Different threads may set different values to the same key.

The destructor, if available, is not invoked.

Parameters

tss_id - thread-specific storage key, obtained from tss_create and not deleted by tss_delete
val - value to set thread-specific storage to

Return value

thrd_success if successful, thrd_error otherwise.

Notes

The POSIX equivalent of this function is pthread_setspecific

Typically TSS is used to store pointers to blocks of dynamically allocated memory that have been reserved for use by the calling thread.

tss_set may be called in the TSS destructor. If the destructor exits with non-NULL value in the TSS storage, it will be retried by thrd_exit up to TSS_DTOR_ITERATIONS times, after which the storage will be lost.

Example

int thread_func(void *arg) {
    tss_t key;
    if (thrd_success == tss_create(&key, free)) {
        tss_set(key, malloc(4)); // stores a pointer on TSS
        // ...
    }
} // calls free() for the pointer stored on TSS

References

  • C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011):
  • 7.26.6.4 The tss_set function (p: 387)

See also

reads from thread-specific storage
(function)