cygthread::cygthread() hang

[Pierre A. Humblet]

Joe Buehler wrote:
> 
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> > Yep.  I guess it's possible that there are more leaks than just the
> > stack one.
> 
> OK, I think I know what is going on.  The stack address for terminated
> threads is walking up through memory until it hits the top and then
> CreateThread() fails.  So the thread stack is not being freed.
> 
> Looking at the API documentation, it looks like VirtualFree() is not being
> used correctly.  The VirtualQuery() function is returning a region of size
> 4096.  So probably that is all that is committed, the rest is reserved,
> and VirtualFree is only freeing the committed memory, since everything has
> to be in the same state.  I'll call VirtualFree() twice like the docs say
> and see if that fixes it.

Shouldn't it simply be MEM_RELEASE? Right now the committed memory would
change state to reserved, no freed.

Pierre