Re: SIGSEGV on recursive pthread_join

[Andreas Schwab]

Richard Guenther <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
>
>> Looking at the code i think it should return EINVAL, I have no idea
>> why it doesn't. But POSIX says that joining a thread twice results in
>> undefined behaviour, so it's not really wrong to crash, just not very
>> friendly.
>
> Indeed.  And somehow it "works" when using a libc with debugging symbols
> in...

That's a perfectly adequate implementation for undefined behaviour.

Andreas.

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