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Re: pthreads



----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin-developers@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 4:45 AM
Subject: Re: pthreads


> On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:08:27PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> >I'm not 100% sure we follow the calling thread's state rather than
the
> >mainthreads state, but I'll look into that.
>
> We should duplicate the calling thread's state.  This was a customer
> problem report a couple of years ago and I went to great efforts to
fix
> it.  If we don't do that then we definitely won't duplicate the main
> thread's state, so the alternative is that we would probably crash
> or hang, or something.
>
> cgf
>

Thanks. I'll assume we do, and confirm when we I look at the
pthread_fork functions.

Rob


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