[mythtv-commits] Ticket #4740: Why pass return value pointer to pthread_join if we don't look at it?

MythTV mythtv at cvs.mythtv.org
Fri Feb 22 17:57:38 UTC 2008


#4740: Why pass return value pointer to pthread_join if we don't look at it?
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 Reporter:  Erik Hovland <erik at hovland.org>  |       Owner:  ijr 
     Type:  defect                           |      Status:  new 
 Priority:  trivial                          |   Milestone:  0.21
Component:  mythtv                           |     Version:  head
 Severity:  low                              |     Mlocked:  0   
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 pthread_join can give the caller the return value of the function that was
 run by the thread the caller is trying to join to. This is done by passing
 a void double pointer.

 main() in programs/mythtv does this. But doesn't do anything with the
 pointer.

 Since it doesn't do anything with it, there really isn't a point in
 allocating the variable on the stack and passing it.

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Ticket URL: <http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/4740>
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