Thread pool stack security issue

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Published on 2010-03-19T03:54:47Z Indexed on 2010/03/19 4:01 UTC
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In a naive implementation of a thread pool, can a piece of code that is being executed read the data left by some previous code on the stack (if it was running on the same thread instance)? Also, are there any other inherent security issues connected to thread pools?

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