Downloading the latest build of cygwin1.dll and installing it has fixed this problem, but it does make me rather uncomfortable...so ist das Leben, I guess!
Thanks for your time; I appreciate the help. ben > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Ben Lavender > Sent: 21 October 2004 12:06 > Hello all, I have a problem. I have a bug or misconfig that manifests > itself in pthreads.h. > > Basically, if a child thread ends, the main thread stops executing. > The program does not > end, but it doesn't go any further. Your example runs fine on my system: main keeps going after threadfunc terminates. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /test/pthread/ch-term2> ./foo.exe looping in main looping in thread func at 1 looping in main looping in thread func at 2 looping in main looping in thread func at 3 looping in main looping in thread func at 4 looping in main looping in main looping in main looping in main looping in main looping in main looping in main <Ctrl-C'd it here> However it should be pointed out that I'm running a custom build of the cygwin dll from recent CVS: Cygwin DLL version info: DLL version: 1.5.12 DLL epoch: 19 DLL bad signal mask: 19005 DLL old termios: 5 DLL malloc env: 28 API major: 0 API minor: 116 Shared data: 4 DLL identifier: cygwin1 Mount registry: 2 Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions Cygwin registry name: Cygwin Program options name: Program Options Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2 Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix Cygdrive default prefix: Build date: Wed Oct 13 13:25:07 GMTST 2004 Shared id: cygwin1S4 So perhaps you'll have better luck if you try using the latest snapshot. In general, your usage of the pthread functions looks correct to me. (However, if you ever post a sample that declares main to return void in comp.lang.c, they'll tear your throat out with their bare teeth!) You should fix the warnings by defining the functions to have the correct prototypes as a matter of good style (it's bad to have code that builds with lots of warnings, because you get used to ignoring or skipping over them in the build output, and then you miss _real_ problems when they arise, even though the compiler spotted them for you), but I don't think there's anything in your code that would be causing this problem. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/