Re: Pthread conformance issue with main thread

[Samuel Thibault]

Richard Braun, le Tue 12 Nov 2013 12:02:28 +0100, a écrit :
> all diskfs translators, exit from the main thread after initialization.
> But POSIX mandates that exiting from the main thread makes the whole
> process exit too.

Uh?  It mandates that if the main() function returns, exit() is called,
and thus the whole process exits.  But if main() calls pthread_exit(),
only the thread is terminated, not the whole process.  I don't see
anything saying that it should terminate the whole process, on the
contrary: “The process shall exit with an exit status of 0 after the
last thread has been terminated.”, which implys that main() too has
called pthread_exit() to terminate itself but not the whole process.

Samuel