Subj : Re: Main thread going away but worker threads executing?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Mon Jul 18 2005 06:37 pm


"Ian" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message 
news:1121730205.316420@drone2-svc-skyt.qsi.net.nz...

> David Schwartz wrote:

>>     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.

    As does a call to 'exit'. But that's not because anything is special 
about the thread that's running 'main', it's because returning from 'main' 
calls 'exit', just as it does in a single-threaded process.

    DS

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