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RE: [PATCH] minor pthread fixes


Hi Thomas! It's great to see someone else also interested in pthreads. I
look forward to your work on cancellation - that's been in my TODO list
for far too long.

re: 1. Good catch, this definitely needs fixing. Also an excellent catch
on pthread_join (pthread_self(),...)

Regarding 2:, again  a good catch. 

I'll commit this to CVS this weekend, I've a bit of spare time coming
up.

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Pfaff [mailto:tpfaff@gmx.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 8:11 PM
> To: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com
> Subject: [PATCH] minor pthread fixes
> 
> 
> 
> This patch contains some small pthread fixes:
> 
> 1. the pthread class allocated in __pthread_create never was 
> freed. This
>    resulted in a memory leak and an unclosed handle.
>    Depending on the state of of the thread it is deleted now in
>    __pthread_exit or __pthread_join
> 2. The InterlockedIncrement (&MT_INTERFACE->threadcount) in
>    __pthread_create is misplaced. If the newly created thread 
> terminates
>    fast enough the threadcount will be decremented before it was
>    incremented, which will result in an exit from 
> __pthread_exit instead
>    of an ExitThread.
> 
> Comments are very welcome, because i like to add more patches 
> regarding cancellation which is incomplete, a better mutex 
> implementation (the current one has only recursive mutexes 
> and is slow on win9x) ... .
> 
> Thanks,
> Thomas
> 
> 
> 2002-04-18  Thomas Pfaff  <tpfaff@gmx.net>
> 
>  	* thread.h (pthread::joiner): New member.
>  	* thread.cc (pthread::pthread): Initialize joiner to NULL
> 	(pthread::create): Increment of thread counter moved from
> 	__pthread_create to this location.
> 	(__pthread_create): Increment thread counter removed.
> 	(thread_init_wrapper): Set joiner to self when thread 
> was created
> 	detached.
> 	(__pthread_exit): delete thread when it is detached and not
> 	joined.
> 	(__pthread_join): Check for deadlock and delete thread 
> when it has
> 	terminated.
> 	(__pthread_detach): Set joiner to self when thread state
> 	changed to detached.
> 
> 


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