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Re: Exiting a cthread?


On Apr 11, 2006, at 4:46 PM, Tomas Zahradnicky wrote:
my app creates a two threads in a remote context and I'd like to ask what's the proper way to have cthread "commit suicide" to not cause resource leaks when I'm finished with it.

Is OK to call

  thread_terminate( mach_thread_self() );

from that cthread and expect nothing more to be executed beyond that point?

Darwin doesn't really use cthreads (we use pthreads over Mach threads), so I assume this question is about a Mach thread. That call, called from the thread itself, will get rid of the Mach thread resources for the thread and one send right for the Mach port representing the thread. But it won't handle reaping any of the other user-level resources like a stack, etc... You will have to handle those resources from outside the thread (since the thread will need its stack to make that call).

--Jim

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