Re: pthread_exit bug ?

[Ross Johnson <rpj@ise.canberra.edu.au>]

Tristan,

Please try pthreads-win32-snap-1999-08-12 with your code. It fixes a
bug in pthread_exit.

ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/pthreads-win32/dll-latest

I'm about to create a new snapshot so keep a lookout for that one
also.

Cheers.
Ross 

On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Tristan Savatier wrote:

> I am currently using pthreads-win32-snap-1999-05-30,
> using VC++ 6.0 under Win98.
> 
> My program creates several threads.  At termination,
> each thread (except the main thread) terminates by calling
> pthread_exit, then the main thread terminates by
> calling pthread_exit (at this point, all my threads
> are terminated, therefore the process should disapear).
> 
> This works fine with native pthread libraries on
> Linux and other Posix systems.
> 
> But I noticed that with pthreads-win32, calling pthread_exit 
> to terminate my main thread does not work well: the process survives
> with two dangling threads (both threads are some type
> of internal kernel threads, not running any of my code).
> 
> If I call exit(0) [instead of pthread_exit] to terminate
> my main thread, the process terminates properly (i.e.
> this is a workaround).
> 
> This looks like a bug: the pthread standard says,
> in the pthread_exit specification:
> <<When the last thread in a process exits, exit(0)
> will be called.>>
> 
> Is that a known bug ?
> 
> -t
> 

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