Memory leak with detached threads

[Stephen Croall]

Hi,

You aren't freeing the handle to the created thread :)

If you aren't interested in using the handle later on call
pthread_detach() to free the resources for the thread handle.  


Steve.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pthreads-win32-owner@sourceware.org 
> [mailto:pthreads-win32-owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of 
> Giuliano Catrambone
> Sent: 29 October 2006 19:43
> To: pthreads-win32@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Memory leak with detached threads
> 
> Hi all,
>     I found a memory leak working with detached threads.
>     I just made a simple C code to demonstrate where I have 
> the memory leak.
> 
>     Running the attached C code I saw about 4KB of memory 
> leak every 20 
> iteration.
> 
>     I'm using pthreads-dll-2005-03-08.
> 
>     Could you tell me if I'm wronging something or if it is a bug?
>     Thanks in advance
>        giu
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