+
+ /* Block all signals before decrementing the live thread count.
+ * This is important to ensure that dynamically allocated TLS
+ * is not under-allocated/over-committed, and possibly for other
+ * reasons as well. */
+ __syscall(SYS_rt_sigprocmask, SIG_BLOCK, SIGALL_SET, &set, _NSIG/8);
+
+ /* Wait to unlock the kill lock, which governs functions like
+ * pthread_kill which target a thread id, until signals have
+ * been blocked. This precludes observation of the thread id
+ * as a live thread (with application code running in it) after
+ * the thread was reported dead by ESRCH being returned. */