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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 15:39:23 -0500
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?
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> 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