ChangeLogTag:Thu Oct 30 16:14:06 2003 Balachandran Natarajan <bala@dre.vanderbilt.edu>

2 files changed, 18 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index aa2e767f645..dabeb49fb6b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+Thu Oct 30 16:14:06 2003  Balachandran Natarajan  <bala@dre.vanderbilt.edu>
+
+	* ace/Thread_Manager.cpp (spawn_i): 
+
+	  Fixed ACE_Thread_Manager problem on VxWorks where thread id
+	  could be corrupted by taking address of a temporary
+	  variable. Thank to Dennis Noll, and Brian Mendel for tracking
+	  this down. 
+
 Thu Oct 30 11:57:36 2003  Balachandran Natarajan  <bala@dre.vanderbilt.edu>
 
 	* bin/tao_orb_tests.lst: Added a couple of Portable_Interceptor
diff --git a/ace/Thread_Manager.cpp b/ace/Thread_Manager.cpp
index b24462ec3b9..b894ff36af3 100644
--- a/ace/Thread_Manager.cpp
+++ b/ace/Thread_Manager.cpp
@@ -588,15 +588,16 @@ ACE_Thread_Manager::spawn_i (ACE_THR_FUNC func,
   // point to the task name in the TCB in ACE_OS::thr_create ().
   if (t_id == 0)
     {
-      char *thr_id;
-      ACE_NEW_RETURN (thr_id,
-                      char[16],
+      ACE_NEW_RETURN (t_id,
+                      char*,
                       -1);
-      // Mark the thread ID to show that the ACE_Thread_Manager
-      // allocated it.
-      thr_id[0] = ACE_THR_ID_ALLOCATED;
-      thr_id[1] = '\0';
-      t_id = &thr_id;
+       ACE_NEW_RETURN (*t_id,
+                       char[16],
+                       -1);
+       // Mark the thread ID to show that the ACE_Thread_Manager
+       // allocated it.
+       (*t_id)[0] = ACE_THR_ID_ALLOCATED;
+       (*t_id)[1] = '\0';
     }
 #else  /* ! VXWORKS */
   ACE_thread_t thr_id;