| delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi | search |
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Bob van Loosen wrote: >> Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 02:45:55AM +0200, Bob van Loosen wrote: >>> >>>> Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>> >>>>> This should be fixed in the next snapshot. If you are looking for a >>>>> workaround, specifically set the sigev_notify_attributes to >>>>> PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED. >>>>> >>>> Thanks, that fixed it. >>>> Shouldn't PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED be default? That's what the >>>> opengroup.org site says. >>>> >>> >>> Maybe you need to reinvestigate the meaning of "fixed" and >>> "workaround"? >> From my point of view, the workaround fixed the memory leak. > > So if the workaround was the fix in your mind, why the follow-up > question? I think the point that's being missed here is that there > was a way Chris found for you to move beyond the problem even without > his fix. But there was a problem that needed fixing so that the > next person doesn't run into the same thing. If that makes sense to > you, then you've gotten all you can from this thread. > I was only curious why using a pthread_attr_t with the default attributes makes a difference. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
| webmaster | delorie software privacy |
| Copyright © 2019 by DJ Delorie | Updated Jul 2019 |