From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Milan Gardian" <mg@tatramed.sk>
To: "'Tristan Savatier'" <tristan@mpegtv.com>, <pthreads-win32@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: RE: pthread_exit bug ?
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 03:35:00 -0000
Message-id: <000301bef52e$f59e5e10$440b10ac@leibinger.freinet.de>
References: <37CE487D.FD66CE11@mpegtv.com>
X-SW-Source: 1999/msg00073.html

[snip]
> My program creates several threads.  At termination,
> each thread (except the main thread) terminates by calling
> pthread_exit, then the main thread terminates by
> calling pthread_exit (at this point, all my threads
> are terminated, therefore the process should disapear).

(This note does not try to diminish the meaning of the reported bug)
Q: Is there a reason to use pthread_exit from the main thread? A special
functionality prehaps? Specifically, I would like to know if there's some
difference between these two code snips:

(a)
int main(void)
{
    //Do some threading stuff...
    return (24);
}


(b)
void main(void)
{
    //Do some threading stuff...
    pthread_exit(24);
}

>From the rather ideological reasons  :) I prefer the (a) version, but will
gladly learn if there's a point in the (b) version.

Looking forward to anyone answering;
Yours sincerely,
	Milan G.