[M3devel] pthread_create => pthread_join?

[Tony Hosking]

pthread_join is unnecessary.  pthread_detach is sufficient.  pthread_detach before pthread_join is an error.  pthread_join without pthread_detach is a convenience.

On 30 Nov 2009, at 05:20, Jay K wrote:

> I was wondering..how does one cleanup the result of pthread_create?
>  
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/pthread_join.html
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> "It is unspecified whether a thread that has exited but remains unjoined counts against _POSIX_THREAD_THREADS_MAX"
>  
>  
> We never call pthread_join.
> We have our own mechanism.
> We should probably call pthread_join though?
>  
> Or detach is sufficient?
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> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/pthread_detach.html
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> "The pthread_join() or pthread_detach() functions should eventually be called for every thread that is created so that storage associated with the thread may be reclaimed
> "
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> But what about the wording pthread_join?
>  
>  - Jay

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