From:	sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject:	RE: Nonblocking serial reads
16 Apr 1998 00:23:02 -0700 :
Message-ID:	<01BD692A.3D7B5E00.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@drs>
To:	"cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>,
	"noer AT cygnus DOT com" <noer AT cygnus DOT com>,
	"'Christopher Faylor'"
	<cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Cc:	"keiths AT cygnus DOT com" <keiths AT cygnus DOT com>

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I do all I/O from a separate thread, killing the thread if there is a
> signal which should interrupt the I/O.
>

According to MS docs, TerminateThread() call not releases reservation of 
addres space for thread's stack. After several 
CreateThread/TerminateThread() you'll run out of virtual address space.

--
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia.

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