Subj : Re: Answer David Schwartz 's question
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
Date : Tue Apr 05 2005 02:19 pm

Oliver Battenfeld <oliver.battenfeld.news@expires-2005-04-30.arcornews.de> writes:

>>     Nope. Suppose another thread was in the middle of 'malloc' when you
>> stopped it.
>
> Question then: What happens, if one such thread is preempted "in the
> middle of malloc" by the main thread?

Probably malloc invoked from another thread will block until this
thread finishes the malloc.

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