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Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Fri, 22 Apr 2011 10:09:22 -0500

Hi Jeff,

On Thursday 21 April 2011 17:54:11 Jeff Hill wrote:
> > However unless you use the epicsThread routines in libCom
> > to create that thread I don't believe it will have any way
> > to clean up the context again when that thread exits
> 
> The R3.14 ca library, will implicitly create a ca context for the thread
> that does not call ca_create_context before it uses ca functions, but in
> fact it will not implicitly destroy that context when the thread exits.

Ah, I thought you might be registering an epicsAtThreadExit() handler and keep 
a reference count on the number of threads using each context, but on 
reflection I see that would be a rather brittle approach since an application 
could be managing its own contexts privately without you knowing about it.

Thanks for the clarification,

- Andrew
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