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authorRussell Bryant <russell@russellbryant.com>2007-05-24 19:11:09 +0000
committerRussell Bryant <russell@russellbryant.com>2007-05-24 19:11:09 +0000
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add a note about using the intenal API for creating detached threads
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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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