On 30-10-2022 12:28, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
The POSIX thread library has a function called pthread_detach (https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/pthread_detach.3.html). Do the RTL threads have anything comparable?
Yes. They call pthread_detach when ending, i.e. just before calling pthread_exit. So if you use normal threads, you already use that.
Similarly, pthread_join is a part of tthread.waitfor . Have a look at rtl/unix/cthreads.pp for how the RTL threads map to pthreads on *nix systems.
Honestly I don’t really understand why this is even needed because the threads seem to clean themselves up when they exit anyways but since it exists in pthreads I thought I was ask.
Maybe there are other uses of pthread_detach that don't immediately call _exit. I'm not pthreads expert, so I can't help there.
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