| Speaking from a Mac programmer point of view (MacOS is basically a Unix type system). Threading usually has a main thread which spawns other tasks that could be cpu intensive or otherwise lengthy. The OS will allocate them as it sees fit to cores/CPUs as it sees fit.
When the main task quits it should first terminate, in an orderly fashion, any threads it has created. This is usually done with the appropriate signal or function call depending on the OS implementation.
Some OS' will forcibly kill all the processes associated with the main one. But this means the programmer was not as polite as they should be.
I know nothing worth knowing of Windows OS' so can't comment further on that. But the design of threading is not new and I would imagine Windows does the same sort of thing.
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Peter On 2013-03-05, at 2:13 PM, Jeremiah Benham wrote: I have also built from master and compiled --without-portmidi. Everything works great but it also hangs on exit. I wonder if it is a threading issue. I don't know how threading works. I assume that each thread need to closed on exit. How can we tell that this is happening? Jeremiah
On Mar 5, 2013 11:48 AM, "Richard Shann" < address@hidden> wrote:
On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 12:37 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> I am almost 100% certain that Denemo is not working in wine because of
> portmidi. I think the only reason it worked with the early rc1-5ish is
> because portmidi was not actually working correctly. I disable
> portmidi in the mingw branch and it worked in wine. I am going to try
> another test against the master branch with --disable-portmidi to see
> if this is truly the case.
I have built git master with --disable-portmidi and it still crashed on
the xp box which has so far refused to run any version. I checked on
another xp box and it ran but hung on exiting, as did a version built
with portmidi. On that box after installation there were no fonts, so I
just re-booted and the fonts were found.
Richard
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