Subj : Re: pthread_create returns 12
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : loic-dev
Date : Wed Apr 06 2005 09:06 am

Hi Marbac,

> i am creating 10000+ threads to evaluate how many threads my
> implementation allows (hope that it is equal to PTHREAD_THREADS_MAX)

Perhaps check it first.

> man pthreat_create tells me, that pthread_create has to return EAGAIN

> which is 11.
>
> But in my implementation it returns 12 ... what does this error-code
> stand for?

Depends on which OS. On Linux, this mean  "Out of Memory"...
But independently on which *nix you are working, you can always use
strerror() to get a human readable version of the error code!

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int
main()
{
  printf("%s\n",strerror(12));
  return 0;
}


HTH,
Loic.

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