Subj : Re: thread destructor ala atexit()
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Chris Thomasson
Date : Tue Aug 30 2005 03:46 pm

"Frank Cusack" <fcusack@fcusack.com> wrote in message 
news:m2d5nvgrsp.fsf@maguro.savecore.net...
> Is there anything like pthread_atexit() which would register a destructor
> to be run when a thread terminates?  I have a module which plugs into an
> existing framework.  I want to create a thread local variable in my 
> module.
> Initializing the variable allocates resources which must be destroyed upon
> thread termination.
>
> But I don't control thread creation and destruction--that's handled within
> the existing framework.
>
> I looked at cancellation but it doesn't seem like it will work.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/pthread_key_create.html

That should do exactly what you want.

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