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Re: pthread creation fails with EAGAIN

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On 2011-06-02 13:42:21 -1000, red floyd said:

> On Jun 2, 4:07 pm, Ian Collins <ian-n...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> On 06/ 3/11 11:02 AM, Jaydeep Chovatia wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>> 
>>> I am using pthread_create API in my application. My application is
>>> creating many threads, after some time I started receiving following
>>> error from pthread_create API call:
>> 
>>> "EAGAIN Resource temporarily unavailable"
>> 
>>> I would like to know what are the possible reason behind this error.
>>> Any help on this would be appreciated.
>> 
>> man pthread_create.
>> 
>> The error says it all, your system "lacked the necessary resources to
>> create another thread" to quote from my man page.
>> 
> 
> What Ian said.  Any futher questions should be asked in a forum
> relevant
> to your OS, since pthread_create is not part of the C++ language (even
> in C++11).

On he other hand, EAGAIN *is* part of C++ 11. C++11 has a new header, 
<cerrno>, which defines the same identifiers as POSIX's <errno.h>.

-- 
  Pete
Roundhouse Consulting, Ltd. (www.versatilecoding.com) Author of "The 
Standard C++ Library Extensions: a Tutorial and Reference 
(www.petebecker.com/tr1book)

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pthread creation fails with EAGAIN Jaydeep Chovatia <chovatia.jaydeep@gmail.com> - 2011-06-02 16:02 -0700
  Re: pthread creation fails with EAGAIN Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-03 11:07 +1200
    Re: pthread creation fails with EAGAIN red floyd <redfloyd@gmail.com> - 2011-06-02 16:42 -0700
      Re: pthread creation fails with EAGAIN Pete Becker <pete@versatilecoding.com> - 2011-06-02 14:19 -1000
        Re: pthread creation fails with EAGAIN red floyd <no.spam.here@its.invalid> - 2011-06-02 23:40 -0700

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