Memory leak with timer

[Bob van Loosen]

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> Bob van Loosen wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 02:45:55AM +0200, Bob van Loosen wrote:
>>>  
>>>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>> This should be fixed in the next snapshot.  If you are looking for a
>>>>> workaround, specifically set the sigev_notify_attributes to
>>>>> PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED.
>>>>>       
>>>> Thanks, that fixed it.
>>>> Shouldn't PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED be default? That's what the 
>>>> opengroup.org site says.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Maybe you need to reinvestigate the meaning of "fixed" and 
>>> "workaround"?
>>  From my point of view, the workaround fixed the memory leak.
>
> So if the workaround was the fix in your mind, why the follow-up
> question?  I think the point that's being missed here is that there
> was a way Chris found for you to move beyond the problem even without
> his fix.  But there was a problem that needed fixing so that the
> next person doesn't run into the same thing.  If that makes sense to
> you, then you've gotten all you can from this thread.
>

I was only curious why using a pthread_attr_t with the default 
attributes makes a difference.

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