malleswararao venkatanaga wrote:
> I've reversed the above 2 lines. But i still get 
> non-deterministic results, one of the threads gets
> blocked and never comes out of the select call though
> it has messages to read.

Well, after I fix the pthread_join() call to use correct 
parameters (threads[0] instead &threads[0]), and of course
call pthread_create() before stub_test2() call, I get what
seems to be correct behaviour - I get periodic messages

sent message
Recvd some message  main thread

and

read 5 bytesRead bytes thr 2 5
Buff contents = h
Buff contents = e
Buff contents = l
Buff contents = l
Buff contents = o
sent message

I guess one shouldn't ignore compile warnings ...

Jaromir
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