id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,mlocked 4740,Why pass return value pointer to pthread_join if we don't look at it?,Erik Hovland ,Isaac Richards,"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.",defect,closed,trivial,0.21,mythtv,head,low,fixed,,,0