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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 18:11:39 +0100
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel DOT thibault AT ens-lyon DOT org>
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Subject: Re: pthread_create leaves valid mutex pointers on the stack
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Hi,

Jonathan Lennox, le Thu 16 Mar 2006 12:03:03 -0500, a écrit :
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> In general, the idea of verifying objects on their init functions seems
> dubious to me -- how can you tell initialized objects from random stack or
> heap garbage?

Posix says:
    Attempting to initialize an already initialized mutex results in undefined
    behavior.

But the behavior you desribe is weird indeed :)

Regards,
Samuel

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