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authorrussell <russell@f38db490-d61c-443f-a65b-d21fe96a405b>2007-05-24 19:11:09 +0000
committerrussell <russell@f38db490-d61c-443f-a65b-d21fe96a405b>2007-05-24 19:11:09 +0000
commited238ab53240f118abeee6ade825afc5c7afb5b5 (patch)
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add a note about using the intenal API for creating detached threads
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@@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ can list them in the "svn diff" command:
within Asterisk to enhance portability and in some cases to produce more
secure and thread-safe code. Check utils.c/utils.h for these.
+- If you need to create a detached thread, use the ast_pthread_create_detached()
+ normally or ast_pthread_create_detached_background() for a thread with a smaller
+ stack size. This reduces the replication of the code to handle the pthread_attr_t
+ structure.
* Code formatting
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