RE: [DotGNU]Re: Thread.Join and the main thread

[Thong (Tum) Nguyen]

Oh second thought, there's no need to add another function.  I could just
make ILThreadDestroy recognise the special case for the main thread.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thong (Tum) Nguyen [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, 20 May 2004 6:25 p.m.
> To: 'Russell Stuart'
> Cc: 'DotGnu-Develop'
> Subject: RE: [DotGNU]Re: Thread.Join and the main thread
> 
> The main thread is special in that it never actually finishes running
> until
> the program exits which means it never notifies anyone joining on it.  If
> you prefer the second method, then I can add a function
> (ILThreadMainFinished) that will make the main thread look like it has
> stopped even though it hasn't.
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Russell Stuart [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Thursday, 20 May 2004 6:19 p.m.
> > To: Thong (Tum) Nguyen
> > Cc: 'DotGnu-Develop'
> > Subject: RE: [DotGNU]Re: Thread.Join and the main thread
> >
> > On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 15:56, Thong (Tum) Nguyen wrote:
> > > > My personal preference for threads is that in a non-threaded program
> > > > there shouldn't be any extra threads.  Indeed, I would like to see
> > > > hb_gc.c not start a finalizer thread if there is only one thread
> > running
> > > > - instead it should just run the finalizers synchronously.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Making the GC synchronous until the first thread is created is
> something
> > I
> > > was considering.  However, that doesn't solve the mainThread.Join()
> > issue.
> >
> > No, it doesn't.  I just didn't want to see it solved by making
> > a single threaded app start 4 threads, rather than the current
> > 3.
> >
> > Personally, I thought your second solution was better.  It
> > seemed nice and consistent that all threads, including the
> > one whose entry point is main(), go through very similar
> > startup and exit code.
> >
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