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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 17:31:24 +1200
From: Ross Smith <ross DOT s AT ihug DOT co DOT nz>
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Subject: Re: pthreads works, sorta
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Robert Collins wrote:
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> What does all this mean? We need to catch invalid memroy access,

Why? A program that passes an invalid thread handle is broken.
Penalising non-broken programs merely to provide better error checking
for broken ones doesn't sound reasonable to me.

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