Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:37:05 -0800 (PST) From: youshi10@u.washington.edu To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trying to join an already exited pthread Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0702071437050.22034@hymn08.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <e572718c0702071336o332337d7ue4cdc76bfabb4a1d@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > On 2/7/07, youshi10@u.washington.edu <youshi10@u.washington.edu> wrote: >> Just wondering: >> >> If I was to try and join a pthread that already exited, would there be an >> error message output and/or errno set to an error value, or would a system >> hang? > > man pthread_join(3): > > ERRORS > The pthread_join() function will fail if: > [EINVAL] The implementation has detected that the value speci- > fied by thread does not refer to a joinable thread. > > A pthread that already exited is considered non-joinable > >> It this variable on Unix OSes? > > > The pthread_join() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9945-1:1996 > (``POSIX.1''). Excellent. Thank you very much for the info! -Garrett
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