[Ecls-list] Proposed diff against CVS HEAD related to threads

[Matthew Mondor]

On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:40:57 -0400
Matthew Mondor <mm_lists at pulsar-zone.net> wrote:

> I propose the following diff against CVS HEAD to fix the following
> issues:
> 
> - According to POSIX, threads created using the default attributes must
>   be joined for their return result to be obtained and their resources
>   freed.  This means that an implementation may even leak full thread
>   stacks if they're not joined.  However, it's possible to set the
>   detachstate to PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED meaning that we will not join
>   the thread; we can then safely expect its resources to be
>   automatially reclaimed when the thread terminates.
> 
> - Attribute objects may safely be initialized in advance allowing
>   cleaner and more optimized code.  Moreover, it is not necessary to
>   create an attribute object if the default behavior is wanted, where
>   NULL can be passed.
> 
> - On NetBSD, the _NP suffix to some macros caused building errors.
>   These few cases where also fixed in this diff; this might require
>   addition of preprocessor conditionals for some systems, perhaps.
[ with diff supplied in thread "Missing thread-related diff :)" ]

I posted this a little while ago but have received no reply whatsoever;
by looking at the CVS repository it doesn't seem to have been applied
either.  Any opinion about this?

Thanks,
-- 
Matt