>>>>> "Wolfgang" == Wolfgang Bangerth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[ Wolfgang, I didn't meant to cut off the CCs in my earlier reply. Here it is again, with CCs preserved. ] Wolfgang> OK, I see, you set a mutex on exit of the new thread, and in Wolfgang> join() you just wait to get it. Is this right? Close. In Thread.join we wait on a condition variable. When a thread dies it signals this variable and all listeners wake up. Wolfgang> Then on Linux you will create a zombie for every thread you Wolfgang> create. But empirically this doesn't happen, because we create non-joinable threads. In fact if we tried to join them, pthread_join would just return an error (unless Linux egregiously violates POSIX or X/OPEN here). Wolfgang> Unfortunately, I can't find the place where you actually Wolfgang> create a new thread right away... _Jv_ThreadStart in libjava/posix-threads.cc. Tom
