[asterisk-dev] Newbie question about ast_pthread_create_background

[Russell Bryant]

Alex Massover wrote:
> The problem is that pargs structure in the thread "destroyed" (contains garbage) from the moment that app_exec() exits and it exits just after creating detached thread. If I put sleep() before exiting from app_exec() everying OK, but the whole idea is to be not blocking. I probaly missing something very basic here.
> Please point me to how I can pass the structure to the detached thread and "keep it there" and been able to exit from app_exec().

The problem is that your arguments to the thread are on the stack.  You
need to allocate memory on the heap with ast_malloc(), ast_calloc(), etc.

Also, you probably don't want to use create_background().  You likely
want one of the detached thread variants.

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