Gnustep-base thread creation bug. continued.

2007-04-29 Thread Chris Ball
I spent a bit of time looking at this today and realized that the way thr-pthead.m is initialized isn't exactly my problem. It turns out that my build of base is using gcc's primitives directly and not the thr-pthread.m here. This leaves me more confused as it looks like the gcc primitives should

Re: Gnustep-base thread creation bug.

2007-04-29 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
On 27 Apr 2007, at 22:56, Chris Ball wrote: Right now there appears to be a slightly subtle bug in thr-pthread.m. Specifically the threads created here are created as joinable threads, this is bad because joinable threads have to be joined before their memory is released. What we really wa

Gnustep-base thread creation bug.

2007-04-29 Thread Chris Ball
Right now there appears to be a slightly subtle bug in thr-pthread.m. Specifically the threads created here are created as joinable threads, this is bad because joinable threads have to be joined before their memory is released. What we really want here are detached threads that just go away when