Subj : Re: Linux thread weird problem..
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Joe Seigh
Date : Fri Jul 01 2005 10:45 am

ranjeetw@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> I have single thread handling this data in std::map. This thread waits
> on select, and gets notified from other threads through pipe (as
> mentioned earlier).  Main thread wakes up, and processes requests.
> 
> I am not creating any other thread. I am not passing any functions for
> callback. I am not supplying pointers to this std::map structures. This
> remains a mystery for me, why app should get in endless loop in STL lib
> only.
> 

The data structure was probably corrupted earlier, not at the point
you're seeing the problem.   I don't have enough inforation and
am not familiar enough with STL to know what the problem is.  One
problem is that "threadsafe as int" in C++ doesn't mean very much.


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Joe Seigh

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