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Alex wrote:
> I got this (cygwin):
> 
> $ ./a
> Starting main now
> Creating thread 0
> 
> 0: hello world!
> Creating thread 1
> 
> 1: hello world!
> Creating thread 2
> 
> 2: hello world!
> Creating thread 3
> 
> 3: hello world!
> Creating thread 4
> 
> 4: hello world!
> 
> then the program exit

Ahhh,

found it.  I get the same thing Alex does if I change my startup for Cygwin.  
Force of habit from Unix machine I like to see the login prompt when I start 
Cygwin.  So I have my cygwin.bat set to use the login program as shown here:

start "bash Shell" CMD  /c bin\login.exe

in which case I get the results I posted from mythread_simple and the hang.  If 
I however change my cygwin.bat to use the standard Cygwin.bat which goes 
directly to a bash prompt as in this format:

bash --login -i

then I get the same results as Alex for mythread_simple.  The interesting thing 
here is that in version of cygwin.bat I also use this line:

start "Using rxvt/bash" CMD /c bin\rxvt -geometry 90x30 -fg grey -bg 
midnightblue -cr red -sr -sl 2000 -fn "Lucida Console-12" -tn rxvt -e 
/usr/bin/login

to invoke and rxvt.  In this case ( I just discovered while playing with this) 
the mythread_simple program works here as well - even though I am going through 
the login program. 

So question - is this a result of using the Start command or the fact I am 
using the start command with the login program.  Any ideas.

bk




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