Re: PR_CreateThread -> PR_DestroyThread

"Benjamin Smedberg" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> On 4/15/10 1:56 PM, Mike Moening wrote:
>> If I use PR_CreateThread() and get back a PRThread*
>> How and where it that pointer deleted once that thread dies.
>> Seems we are missing an API:  PR_DestroyThread()
>
> You should never "destroy" a thread, because it may be holding a lock or 
> doing some other synchronized activity. Instead you should signal the 
> thread to exit (using a monitor or other thread signalling device). The 
> main thread then waits for the thread to exit by calling PR_JoinThread. 
> The thread exits by returning from the thread function.
>
> --BDS

Ok.... But seems that PR_JoinThread() doens't cleanup the PRThread* either.
Who does?