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Re: child thread termination causes main thread error termination


On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 02:51:08PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of gmiller
>> Sent: 09 October 2004 19:49
>
>>I have a sample thread application that runs under Ferdora Core 2
>>latest but exits on an error condition under cygwin.  If I add sleeps
>>to the end of the child threads then the program will go to completion.
>>While using "insight" the error can be tracked into the library code.
>>I have attached the source code and output of cygcheck.  Is this a know
>>problem and if so is there any other workaround.
>
>pthread_cond_t start_cv = PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER; pthread_mutex_t
>start_mutex = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;
>
>pthread_cond_t done_cv = PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER; pthread_mutex_t
>done_mutex = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;
>
>pthread_mutex_t print_mutex = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;
>
>Haven't even tried to run your testcase yet, but I've found static
>initialisation of pthread_ types to be unreliable under cygwin; use the
>pthread_XXX_init functions instead, and see if that helps.

?  I don't see why static initialization shouldn't work.  Do you have
a test case which illustrates the unreliability?

cgf

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