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From: shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Recovering a Dead Thread's Stack, etc.
Message-ID: <24884@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 20 May 91 07:01:25 GMT
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How can I tell when a thread is dead and its resources
(especially its stack) can be reclaimed?  Presumably the thread
can't free its own stack since it needs it to call DosExit(). 
One can't tell that a thread is dead by testing for its ID
with, say, DosSuspendThread() (looking for the
ERROR_INVALID_THREADID) since another thread might be created
that would pick up a dying thread's ID.  Presumably
_beginthread() accomplishes the stack reclamation, since my
company has an application that spawns short-run threads left
and right with it and it doesn't lose memory over time.
 
Ken (shiva@well.sf.ca.us)