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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 02:29:01 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: pthreads works, sorta
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In-Reply-To: <EA18B9FA0FE4194AA2B4CDB91F73C0EF7A0E@itdomain002.itdomain.net.au>; from robert.collins@itdomain.com.au on Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:32:03PM +1000

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:32:03PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ross Smith [mailto:ross DOT s AT ihug DOT co DOT nz]
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 3:31 PM
>> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>> Subject: Re: pthreads works, sorta
>> 
>> 
>> Robert Collins wrote:
>> > 
>> > 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.
>> 
>
>Even though the POSIX behaviour is undefined for passed invalid thread
>variables, cygwin1.dll locking up is not a pretty way to handle failure.

I agree.  We always try to go for non-crashing over speed.

cgf

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