[fpc-pascal] Re: Multi-threaded project with few locks (no Thread.waitfor). Memory consumption keeps increasing on Ubuntu 10.10 x64

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On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:24:03 +0200, Sven Barth
<pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:

> The problem isn't the pthreads library. The problem is the POSIX  
> threading specification of which pthreads is an implementation (look at  
> the comment in CSuspendThread again).

Actually, it's not even a problem. Externally suspending a thread is
inherently unsafe and should not be done at all.

If you'd do *that* would be the problem (yes, I know that there are
possible use cases, but these are negligible).


Vinzent.