[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To Whom It May Concern, > > After I patched my 2.6.23 kernel to 2.6.24-rc7 this morning, I noticed > some odd behavior with respect to POSIX threads in a test program I had > written (originally to test epoll.) > > The behavior is as follows: > > 1. main() creates a new thread of execution with pthread_create > 2. thread_func() immediately calls pthread_detach(), which is supposed to > ensure that thread resources are cleaned up when the thread terminates. > 3. The spawned thread sleeps and then prints a message "got here" > 4. The main thread calls pthread_join(). According to the POSIX > documentation, this should suspend execution until the spawned thread has > terminated.
Quoting the man page of pthread_detach(): After pthread_detach completes, subsequent attempts to perform pthread_join on th will fail. regard - Marc -- Marc Kleine-Budde Phone: +49-231-2826-924 Pengutronix - Linux Solutions for Science and Industry Vertretung West/Dortmund http://www.pengutronix.de
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