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Date:      Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:00:37 +0100
From:      Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
Subject:   Re: pthreads : questions about concurrency and lifetime
Message-ID:  <200611290000.37322.pieter@degoeje.nl>
In-Reply-To: <456CBB09.10804@u.washington.edu>
References:  <456CAB12.9070507@u.washington.edu> <200611282302.08439.pieter@degoeje.nl> <456CBB09.10804@u.washington.edu>

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On Tuesday 28 November 2006 23:41, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> So that means no, after a function's definition is reached the
> thread/resources stay in a semi-'alive' (maybe 'zombified') state?, or
> does the kernel cleanup / reclaim all of the resources tied up with the
> thread?
> -Garrett
If you detach the thread, it will properly clean up after it self, after the 
thread has finished running.

-- Pieter



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