Re: [xml] 2.4.27 thread problems

[Gary Pennington sun com]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 04:27:31PM +0300, Alexey Efimov wrote:
> GPsc> Does testThreads work or does it dump core?
>
> Well, this test is broken.
> It doesn't return from pthread_join(...) (in the first call) function in the loop:
>
>     for (i = 0; i < num_threads; i++) {
>         ret = pthread_join(tid[i], &results[i]);
>         if (ret != 0) {
>         perror("pthread_join");
>         exit(1);
>         }
>     }

Why is this broken?

It doesn't seem broken to me. The call to pthread_join will block on each
thread in turn waiting for it to finish. That's the usual paradigm for
waiting for threads using pthreads.

The question still remains - does testThreads work or not when you build
libxml2?

Yours,

Gary
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Gary Pennington
Solaris Kernel Development,
Sun Microsystems
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