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From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Threadcreate() failure value?
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 15:39:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a0511301239g5dbd92ecj494a98943baa9416@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <438E048B.50808@lanl.gov>

> what if your create failed due to some other process having the process
> leak, and you'd like your process, which has done nothing wrong, to get
> out of the mess cleanly?

Then you will need to change the thread library and then
edit all the programs that use it to check the return values
on threadcreate and proccreate.

Russ


  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-30 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-30 16:03 ISHWAR RATTAN
2005-11-30 18:31 ` Russ Cox
2005-11-30 19:02   ` ISHWAR RATTAN
2005-11-30 19:16     ` Russ Cox
2005-11-30 19:59       ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-11-30 20:39         ` Russ Cox [this message]
2005-11-30 20:43           ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-11-30 20:50             ` Russ Cox
2005-11-30 20:58           ` Martin Harriss

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