Oh, sent accidentally by Ctrl+Enter with wrong subject. I meant: "Doubt regarding suspended connection and pthread_exit".
On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 4:00 PM silvioprog <silviop...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > > I have a routine which suspends a MHD connection and calls the following > functions when it starts: > > 1. MHD_suspend_connection() > 2. pthread_create() > 3. pthread_detach() > > and the following when it finishes: > > 1. MHD_resume_connection() > 2. *some callback()* > 3. pthread_exit() > > but the server may be stopped by the user and return from main() before > the stages 2 and 3 above get finished, however, the pthread_create(3) > <https://linux.die.net/man/3/pthread_create> says: "*The new thread > terminates in one of the following ways: - Any of the threads in the > process calls exit(3), or the main thread performs a return from main(). > This causes the termination of all threads in the process*". > > I thought it would be necessary to add some lockable list (with mutex) in > the server to iterate all the threads and cancel them before finishing the > server, but it seems I don't need it, since all the threads are already > exited with main thread, and my application don't need to stop gracefully. > > So, can I follow using such design and run it in production? > > TIA for any suggestions! > -- Silvio Clécio
