From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Tristan Savatier <tristan@mpegtv.com>
To: pthreads-win32@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: pthread_exit bug ?
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 02:43:00 -0000
Message-id: <37CE487D.FD66CE11@mpegtv.com>
References: <000501bee96e$97998e50$440b10ac@leibinger.freinet.de>
X-SW-Source: 1999/msg00070.html

I am currently using pthreads-win32-snap-1999-05-30,
using VC++ 6.0 under Win98.

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 works fine with native pthread libraries on
Linux and other Posix systems.

But I noticed that with pthreads-win32, calling pthread_exit 
to terminate my main thread does not work well: the process survives
with two dangling threads (both threads are some type
of internal kernel threads, not running any of my code).

If I call exit(0) [instead of pthread_exit] to terminate
my main thread, the process terminates properly (i.e.
this is a workaround).

This looks like a bug: the pthread standard says,
in the pthread_exit specification:
<<When the last thread in a process exits, exit(0)
will be called.>>

Is that a known bug ?

-t