> There is *zero* benefit to having any relationship between the > thread's memory pool and the parent's memory pool. You can't cleanup > the thread from the parent anyway, so trust the thread to cleanup > itself (as well as its pool and any memory allocations). I fail to > see the problem here. Sever the imagined relationship. The code > becomes simpler, too. -- justin
coooool. problem-solving by conventions. follow these rules, everything's okay.