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From: Geoff Clare <geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid>
Subject: Re: String multithreading issue
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Marcel Müller wrote:

> On 20.09.2012 17:53, bartek szurgot wrote:
>> you do not join your threads, so you have a race - if threads will not
>> end before program exits, you have a problem.
>
> Does pthreads kill the process, if the main thread ends?
> Or is this just undefined behavior?

Returning from the initial call to main() is equivalent to calling
exit().  (The process is not killed; it terminates normally. Well,
"normally" as far as its parent can tell. I don't mean to imply that
exiting while other threads are running is a normal thing to do.)

You can call pthread_exit() instead of returning from main(), and
then the process will continue running until all of the other
threads have terminated.

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Geoff Clare <netnews@gclare.org.uk>