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Re: pthread creation fails with EAGAIN

From Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c++
Subject Re: pthread creation fails with EAGAIN
Date 2011-06-03 11:07 +1200
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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.

-- 
Ian Collins

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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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