When using LinuxThreads pthread_setspecific triggers recursive allocation on all threads. Work around this by creating a global linked list of in-progress tsd initializations. This modifies the _tsd_get_wrapper macro-generated function. When it has to initialize an TSD object it will push the item to the linked list first. If this causes a recursive allocation then the _get_wrapper request is satisfied from the list. When pthread_setspecific returns the item is removed from the list. This effectively adds a very poor substitute for real TLS used only during pthread_setspecific allocation recursion. Signed-off-by: Crestez Dan Leonard <lcrestez@ixiacom.com>