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clear need_locks in child after fork

the child is single-threaded, but may still need to synchronize with
last changes made to memory by another thread in the parent, so set
need_locks to -1 whereby the next lock-taker will drop to 0 and
prevent further barriers/locking.
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Rich Felker 6 years ago
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      src/process/fork.c

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src/process/fork.c

@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ pid_t fork(void)
self->next = self->prev = self;
__thread_list_lock = 0;
libc.threads_minus_1 = 0;
if (libc.need_locks) libc.need_locks = -1;
}
__restore_sigs(&set);
__fork_handler(!ret);

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