Re: pthread_create -- no callback?

["Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lassi A. Tuura" <lassi.tuura@cern.ch>
To: "Evan Pollan" <evan_pollan@yahoo.com>
Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 2:28 AM
Subject: Re: pthread_create -- no callback?


> > The sample I included did check the return value of pthread_join.
>
> Nope, you are still not printing pthread_join *return* value -- print
> the int returned by pthread_join as you did with pthread_create.  On
> linux it returns ESRCH = no such thread.  Your problem is with the
> thread argument to pthread_join as shown below.
>
> Since you are not joining with the thread, the output might disappear.
> My guess is that the main thread finishes execution and the stdout
gets
> closed before the second thread executes, and hence you see no output
> from the other thread.  That doesn't happen on linux as you can see
> below, but maybe it is reasonable behaviour on windows.  If you think
it
> is a bug, I am sure cygwin authors would appreciate a patch ;-)

This is indeed the behaviour. The reason is that main() is returning as
opposed to calling pthread_exit (rv);. This is a grey area AFAIK in the
SUSv2 specification.

Patchs accepted as always, probably for gcc in this case.

Rob


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