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Re: [NPTL docs] pthread robustness and pthread_mutex_consistent
2017-08-07 15:33 GMT+08:00 Patrick Schlangen <patrick@schlangen.me>:
> Hi Yubin,
>
>> However some threads might die inadvertently with the lock hold,
>
> I know it's not specifically answering your question, but how can a thread
> in your application 'die'?
A programmer can call pthread_kill(), or call pthread_exit() wrongly (at the
wrong place). I don't know. I am writing some library so I have to
cover all the possibility.
> I'm just wondering how such a situation can happen. If you have an issue in
> an application where locks are not properly released, you would usually debug
> why that's happening and not try to work around the issue.
Yubin