Ping[2]: [PATCH] Fix sporadic failure in tst-eintr1 test case

Jonathan Nieder jrnieder@gmail.com
Tue Oct 2 06:40:00 GMT 2012


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.



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