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Eric Norum <[email protected]> · Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:29:13 -0600

I am opposed to the addition of epicsThreadDelete(). We looked long

and hard at that capability when creating the OSI libraries and

decided to leave it out. At the very least there is almost a

guarantee of resource leakage when killing a thread from the

outside. There's also the possibility of leaving a lock somewhere

or an open file left dangling. I would say that the only thing safe

to do after killing another thread would be to reboot the IOC

(vxWorks, RTEMS) or terminate the process (posix, etc.) -- and if

you're going to do that you may as well just avoid the thread delete

in the first place!

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Eric Norum <[email protected]>
Advanced Photon Source
Argonne National Laboratory
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