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Re: Ping[2]: [PATCH] Fix sporadic failure in tst-eintr1 test case
Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 12:12:39 -0700, Jonathan wrote:
>> It is unspecified whether a thread that has exited but remains
>> unjoined counts against {PTHREAD_THREADS_MAX}.
>
> OK, thanks for confirming that.
Just for reference: the above passage is about threads that have
pthread_exit()-ed and _not_ been joined yet. The normative part of
the standard does not seem to say anything so clear about threads that
have been joined.