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Subject: Re: Trying to join an already exited pthread
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On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>
> Actually, now that I think about it the calls I made with ps in the program 
> are valid for Linux but not for FreeBSD (they're for getting thread 
> listings). Hence error code 2.
>
> From intro(2):
>
>     2 ENOENT No such file or directory.  A component of a specified 
> pathname did not exist, or
> 					  the pathname was an empty
> 					  string.
>
> Didn't think that a bad command would return errno=2 though..

And hopefully you've realized that your code is totally bogus
since pthread_foo() don't set errno.  All the pthread_foo()
functions _return_ the error.  If your code is not checking
the return values from those functions, it is wrong on every
platform, not just FreeBSD.

-- 
DE