Subj : Re: Main thread going away but worker threads executing?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Ian
Date : Tue Jul 19 2005 04:55 pm

David Schwartz wrote:
> "Ian" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message 
> news:1121730205.316420@drone2-svc-skyt.qsi.net.nz...
> 
> 
>>David Schwartz wrote:
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> 
>>>    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.
> 
Isn't the fact that returning from one thread calls exit while returning 
from another does not make it special?  If not special, then at least 
different :)

Ian

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