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Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 21:29:00 -0000
From: Will Bryant <will.bryant@ecosm.com>
Subject: Re: [pthread] Memory leak using pthread (pthreadVC)
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Hi Patrick,

I suggest you have a read through the standard pthreads documentation.  You
must either pthread_join your threads, or pthread_detach them.

Cheers,
Will

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick DUPUTZ" <patrick.duputz@wanadoo.fr>
To: <pthreads-win32@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 6:09 AM
Subject: [pthread] Memory leak using pthread (pthreadVC)


> Hi,
>
> I'm a new user of Posix Thread for Win32 (using pthreadVC.dll) and I
> have encountered a problem of memory leak in my program since I replaced
> the Win32 thread calls by Posix ones. Here is my program in the main
> lines, did I miss something?
>
>        // My thread
>        void * ClientThread ( void * )
>        {
>        // pthread_exit( NULL ); // Commented because that does not
> compile under MS Visual C+ 6.0 (don't know why!)
>
>        return( NULL ); // no other solution to compile..
>        }
>
>        // My Main
>        void Main(.)
>        {
>        pthread_t tid;
>
>        while ( true )
>        {
>        pthread_create( &tid, NULL, ClientThread, &arg );
>        }
>        exit( 0 );
>        }
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>           Xterminhate.
>
>
>
>