Thread.join() ?

[Étienne Dupuis]

Greetings,

 

Method Thread.join() seems to never return. On Linux, with Common C++ 1.0.9, consider the following program :

 

int main()

{

    class Wait : public Thread {

        protected :

            virtual void run() {

                sleep(1000);

            }

    };

 

    Wait wait;

    wait.start();

    wait.join();

 

    return 0;

}

 

It never ends as it is stuck in the join() method. However, on Windows 2000 it works correctly. Moreover, method Thread::yield() yields as much as one second (!) on my Linux machine but works as expected on Windows.

 

Anyone got similar problems ? Should I consider that my Linux kernel is the culprit ? Kernel version is 2.4.18-14.

 

Thanks, Étienne Dupuis