[M3devel] FW: variations of waitpid..?

[Olaf Wagner]

Quoting Jay <jay.krell at cornell.edu>:

> (Personally I have seen precious little code that cares about stack   
> size, just seems to somehow get along, combined with the fact that   
> the current Modula-3 pthread code very likely leaks on some   
> platforms attempting to deal with stack size, makes me inclined to   
> just rip out the code..but yeah..just fix the leak...)

Please don't do that (remove the ability to set stack sizes). I know
that for most of the programs I wrote years ago we had to adapt stack
sizes for threads carefully. That was with user threads though.

Olaf
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