On Linux, the os_thread abstraction is built on top of pthread. Many of
the pthread calls might fail and return error codes. The error
conditions are only checked via assertions (if ever checked) which means
that when doing a release build, no error condition is checked. The
same goes for dlsym/dlinfo and clock_gettime.
This commit improves the situation this by checking the error conditions
and acting accordingly. When the error condition is detected in a
function with a mean to indicate some error to its caller, then this
patch prints some error message and returns. If there is no way to
propagate the error up the call stack, print some error message and
abort the process.
For the os_info::os_info ctor, the only user is CreateThread, which
checks that the built thread is Valid(). If not, nullptr is returned to
the caller.
It could be possible to use exceptions when functions cannot pass
errors, but for now I only use abort as it is what abort would do with
debug build.
Change-Id: I815703c3b95777cc29bb89a7d654ac879c14a759
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