Re: Redundancy Patches

[Eric Norum <norume@aps.anl.gov>]

I am opposed to the addition of epicsThreadDelete().  We looked long  
and hard at that capability when creating the OSI libraries and  
decided to leave it out.  At the very least there is almost a  
guarantee of resource leakage when killing a thread from the  
outside.   There's also the possibility of leaving a lock somewhere  
or an open file left dangling.   I would say that the only thing safe  
to do after killing another thread would be to reboot the IOC  
(vxWorks, RTEMS) or terminate the process (posix, etc.) -- and if  
you're going to do that you may as well just avoid the thread delete  
in the first place!

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Eric Norum <norume@aps.anl.gov>
Advanced Photon Source
Argonne National Laboratory
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