Re: Possible pthreads memory leak

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

zwegner%gmail.com@localhost (Zach Wegner) writes:

>Hello everyone,

>So I'm hunting down a memory leak, and I notice that it occurs only
>when the program is threaded. I reproduced it with the simple threaded
>program below, which simply creates and joins threads repeatedly. At
>any point in time, there will be no more than two threads running. Its
>memory usage continuously grows, pretty quickly in fact:

>        pthread_create(&tid, NULL, test, NULL);
>        r = pthread_join(tid, &x);


I have seen this bug before, maybe the fix wasn't pulled up.

Does it help to follow the join with usleep(1) ?

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