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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 21:23:58 +0200
From: Thomas Pfaff <tpfaff AT gmx DOT net>
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To: Arash Partow <arashp AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Serious problem with win32 pthreads crashing and c++ class
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Arash Partow wrote:
> The prototype initially creates 700 threads all of which are contained in a
> vector (threadList), each thread does some "simple" string processing
> (basically tokenize a string) and then exists. On completion of the thread,
> the thread sets its own state in the thread-class to dead.
> 
> Another thread called GarbageCollector, which is created before the other
> threads are created, is continually traversing the threadList, looking for
> dead threads, once a dead thread is found, it deletes the pointer pointing
> to the thread class in the list, creates a new thread and adds it to the
> end of the list. Hence continually maintaining the number of threads being
> run at any one time, (hopefully)
> 

Hi Arash,

i can confirm that this is a bug in cygwin.
I will apply my changes when your testcase runs successfull over night, 
therefore this should be fixed one of the next snapshots.

Thanks for your stress test.

Thomas


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