Subj : Re: exit_group: unfinished ... exit status 144
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : loic-dev
Date : Fri Aug 19 2005 02:31 am

Salut Anna,

> Just wanted to add one more information.  The above problem
> happens only if I cancel all the threads that is spawned by the
> process in the atexit handlers.
>
> If all the threads are cancelled before calling exit(0), then
> everything is working fine.

On the example you gave, I found out that, on my machine, thread_join()
hanged indefinitively... A bug/issue in glibc/NPTL isn't excluded, I
guess.

But I believe, you could avoid cancelling threads in the atexit
handlers and use another solution, based e.g. on condition variable.
This works.  


Regards,
Loic.

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