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Kenny McCormack said:

> In article < .com>,
> clayne <> wrote:
>>Richard Heathfield wrote the usual crap:
>>
>>> Usenet is an asynchronous medium, and comp.lang.c receives hundreds of
>>> articles a day. What makes you think your contributions are so vital to
>>> Keith that he should commit to memory the context of every thread in
>>> which you post an article?
>
> Note that assuming ignorance/inexperience (or pretending to do so) rather
> than admitting the possibility of disagreement (I.e., the earth is either
> round or it isn't) is a standard debaters dirty trick.

Whether the earth is round depends on your definition of "round", and there
was no dirty-trick debating in the text you quoted above.


--
Richard Heathfield
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999
http://www.cpax.org.uk
email: rjh at above domain (but drop the www, obviously)

*** rude topposting of rude material corrected ***

clayne wrote:
> Keith Thompson wrote:
>> "clayne" <> writes:
>
>>> The correct place would be to ask in
>>> comp.programming.threads.
>>>
>>> Jack, <pthread.h> refers to POSIX threads, not Linux
>>> threads.
>>
>> Please read <http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/>.
>
> Your memory that short that you cannot remember the context of
> my statement from within a 5 post thread originating within the
> same day? It's pretty obvious what I was referring to - quoting
> was unnecessary. If anything, the context was completely
> discernable from what I wrote - but keep beating that Google
> Groups quoting horse... if I sound defensive - it's not defense
> - it's annoyance at unnecessary instructing. Get an intelligent
> news reader, start sorting by thread, or mentor people who drop
> quotes on a 300 post thread, not pointless 5 post ones. How's
> that blood pressure coming?

FYI, yes. Some of us are senile and read several hundred posts
daily. Our readers automatically destroy or hide read posts.

Failure to include *clipped* context, and topposting, are both evil
sins, which foul up communications in general. This is why the
google interface to Usenet is so appalling.

--
"If you want to post a followup via groups.google.com, don't use
the broken "Reply" link at the bottom of the article. Click on
"show options" at the top of the article, then click on the
"Reply" at the bottom of the article headers." - Keith Thompson
More details at: <http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/>

In article <dp8rbj$g01$>,
Richard Heathfield <> wrote:
>Kenny McCormack said:
>
>> In article < .com>,
>> clayne <> wrote:
>>>Richard Heathfield wrote the usual crap:
>>>
>>>> Usenet is an asynchronous medium, and comp.lang.c receives hundreds of
>>>> articles a day. What makes you think your contributions are so vital to
>>>> Keith that he should commit to memory the context of every thread in
>>>> which you post an article?
>>
>> Note that assuming ignorance/inexperience (or pretending to do so) rather
>> than admitting the possibility of disagreement (I.e., the earth is either
>> round or it isn't) is a standard debaters dirty trick.
>
>Whether the earth is round depends on your definition of "round", and there
>was no dirty-trick debating in the text you quoted above.

I could assert that 2+2=4 and you'd disagree.

Note to observers: I'm not kidding. I fully expect a post from him within
the hour "proving" me wrong.

"Kenny McCormack" <> wrote
> Note that assuming ignorance/inexperience (or pretending to do so) rather
> than admitting the possibility of disagreement (I.e., the earth is either
> round or it isn't) is a standard debaters dirty trick. Gets used around
> here a lot.
>
Your newreader added a spurious capital to the last sentence. It happens to
the best of us - autocorrection is often a nuisance.

Jack Klein wrote
(in article <>):

> The place to ask for help with Linux threads is
> news:comp.os.linux.development.apps. Good luck.

Actually, comp.programming.threads is probably a more focused
group to ask such a question, not to mention one or more members
of the POSIX committee that came up with pthreads are known to
subscribe.


--
Randy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR)
"The power of accurate observation is called cynicism by those
who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw

Richard Heathfield <> writes:
> Kenny McCormack said:
[snip]
> Whether the earth is round depends on your definition of "round", and there
> was no dirty-trick debating in the text you quoted above.

Richard, *please* don't feed the troll. clayne may still be educable;
it's far past time to realize that Kenny isn't and never will be.

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst- <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.

On 31 Dec 2005 22:11:29 -0800, "clayne" <> wrote in
comp.lang.c:

> The correct place would be to ask in comp.programming.threads.

The correct place to ask WHAT??

This group is littered with instructions on how to quote properly,
even if you are using the idiot broken Google groups interface. Like
Microsoft before it, Google is not going to succeed in redefining
email and usenet etiquette at its whim.

> Jack, <pthread.h> refers to POSIX threads, not Linux threads.

Part of the OP's original post, which I quoted and you failed to
quote, along with everything else in my reply, was:

> // This example tries to show the use of pthreadss,
> // it only runs on Linux, because of the pthread.h
> // header file.

Kindly read the three lines above, carefully. Especially the middle
one. Perhaps the OP's Linux distro (and which one is it, with which
kernel?) implements POSIX threads in a 100% conforming manner. Perhaps
not, I've seen quite a few failures of true POSIX conformance in
various Linux distributions over the years.

Note that the C language doesn't know or care whether Linux pthreads
are POSIX conforming. The OP asked for help with a program that in
his own words he wants to run only on Linux, the proper redirection is
to news:comp.os.linux.development.apps, just as I said.

If the Linux application experts think he would be better off in
news:comp.programming.threads, they will tell him so.

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Well, thanks anyway to all of you, but i finally found the answer,
thanks to this book
http://www.advancedlinuxprogramming....04-threads.pdf,
instead of the commented line //pthread_join(thread_ID, NULL);, i use
this one: pthread_detach(thread_ID); and i changed the const MAXWIDY to
78, and that's all, now it works good, by the way, sorry for the
off-topic.

In article <>,
Keith Thompson <kst-> wrote:
>Richard Heathfield <> writes:
>> Kenny McCormack said:
>[snip]
>> Whether the earth is round depends on your definition of "round", and there
>> was no dirty-trick debating in the text you quoted above.
>
>Richard, *please* don't feed the troll. clayne may still be educable;
>it's far past time to realize that Kenny isn't and never will be.

See what I mean about these twerps endlessly pretending to assume lack of
education or experience (in their enemies), when the fact is that they (the
twerps) are just plain wrong?

"Kenny McCormack" <> wrote
>
>>Richard, *please* don't feed the troll. clayne may still be educable;
>>it's far past time to realize that Kenny isn't and never will be.
>
> See what I mean about these twerps endlessly pretending to assume lack of
> education or experience (in their enemies), when the fact is that they
> (the
> twerps) are just plain wrong?
>
I did think that maybe Keith was being too harsh, but I now see that he was
right.

Bye bye.