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