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Re: pthreads works, sorta


Robert Collins wrote:
> 
> What does all this mean? We need to catch invalid memroy access,

Why? A program that passes an invalid thread handle is broken.
Penalising non-broken programs merely to provide better error checking
for broken ones doesn't sound reasonable to me.

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Ross Smith <ross.s@ihug.co.nz> The Internet Group, Auckland, New Zealand
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