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Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 16:56:51 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel DOT thibault AT ens-lyon DOT org>, dave AT mielke DOT cc
Subject: Re: segfault with pthread and detached attribute
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On Aug  6 15:45, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had strange hangs and segfaults with a program, and it happens that
> detached thread termination may segfault:
> [...]
> Adding a Sleep(1000); in the f() function before returning prevents from
> the crash, so I guess f() returning fast triggers a race condition in
> the pthread code.

Thanks for the testcase.  This is fixed in current CVS, apparently.


Corinna

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