Race and segmentation fault in pthread_kill() vs thread teardown

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Wed Oct 2 08:11:00 GMT 2013


The POSIX spec is pretty clear:

 If an application attempts to use a thread ID whose lifetime has ended,
 the behavior is undefined.

I'd suggest to file a bug report with the Austin group wrt to the
wording in pthread_kill.

Andreas.

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