Subj : Re: Does pthread emit a sigchld signal on successful exit?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : loic-dev
Date : Fri Aug 19 2005 02:45 am

Salut,

> > Anyway sorry for the obvious question I originally posted a question on
> > a different forum as to how to determine if a thread had exited without
> > calling join on it and the answer I received was to catch sigchld.
> > Still should have known better.
>
>     Someone must have either been really confused or misread "thread" as
> "process".

Actually, on Linux it is possible to create a thread which signals the
parent upon termination. This is achieved with the (highly not
portable) function clone().

Of course, POSIX threads don't have such a thing. 

Loic.

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