Subj : Re: Main thread going away but worker threads executing?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Mon Jul 18 2005 01:09 pm


"Kev" <krr@user.doma.in> wrote in message 
news:Pine.SOL.4.63.0507181045340.12475@conquest.OCF.Berkeley.EDU...

> I have been under the impression that this behavior is expected in C# but 
> that the opposite is true in C. (If the main thread dies, everything 
> dies.)

    The C language has no support for threads. But every threading standard 
I know of implements fully symettric threads where the "main thread" is in 
no way special.

    DS

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