Subj : Re: pthreads and fork
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Alexander Terekhov
Date : Sat Feb 19 2005 07:44 pm


Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
[...]
> What happens with detached threads? 

Same thing as with joinable ones. They are evaporated and cleanup 
just can't be done as long as the standard allows asynchronous 
fork()ing as it does.

>                                     There are only two choices here:
> either their resources are properly deallocated (excluding cleanup
> handlers and TLS descructors), or there is a memory leak.

The cleanest solution is to have synchronous forkall() stuff with 
subsequent ordinary termination/cleanup of threads you don't need 
any more.

http://www.google.de/groups?threadm=3BC1DF97.4993AB97%40web.de

Give it try, file a DR. ;-)

regards,
alexander.

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