Subj : Re: Main thread going away but worker threads executing?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Ian
Date : Tue Jul 19 2005 12:43 pm

David Schwartz wrote:
> "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.
> 
Except on every UNIX/Linux implementation I've used, a return (rather 
than a call to pthread_exit) from main exits the process.

Ian

.