[omniORB] memory leak in omni_thread

[Rusty Carruth]

> 
> David Riddoch wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Looking again, I think it is because you are creating undetached threads.
...
> 
> Works for me.
> 
> I should have spotted this, although, I have to say I think this is pretty
> sublte:-).
> 
For those of us who do threads all day everyday, its not quite so
subtle - ya gotta reap the return value so the os can free the
stack (and so forth), just like SOMEBODY needs to wait() on a 
process to make it leave and not hang around as a zombie...

I will have to admit that I scanned your query and did not think
of that immediately, though, so its not tops on our list of things
to remember, either ;-)

rc

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