----- Original Message ----- From: "Lassi A. Tuura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Evan Pollan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
