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Date:	Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:45:45 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To:	cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: pthreads
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In-Reply-To:	<00f401c0b064$f3a15a70$0200a8c0@lifelesswks>; from robert.collins@itdomain.com.au on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:08:27PM +1100

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:08:27PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>I'm not 100% sure we follow the calling thread's state rather than the
>mainthreads state, but I'll look into that.

We should duplicate the calling thread's state.  This was a customer
problem report a couple of years ago and I went to great efforts to fix
it.  If we don't do that then we definitely won't duplicate the main
thread's state, so the alternative is that we would probably crash
or hang, or something.

cgf

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