Remove support for detached threads. All threads must be joined.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/core/lib/iomgr/timer_manager.cc b/src/core/lib/iomgr/timer_manager.cc
index 94e7953fde..39ef575d12 100644
--- a/src/core/lib/iomgr/timer_manager.cc
+++ b/src/core/lib/iomgr/timer_manager.cc
@@ -84,8 +84,6 @@ static void start_timer_thread_and_unlock(void) {
   if (grpc_timer_check_trace.enabled()) {
     gpr_log(GPR_DEBUG, "Spawn timer thread");
   }
-  gpr_thd_options opt = gpr_thd_options_default();
-  gpr_thd_options_set_joinable(&opt);
   completed_thread* ct =
       static_cast<completed_thread*>(gpr_malloc(sizeof(*ct)));
   // The call to gpr_thd_new() has to be under the same lock used by
@@ -94,7 +92,7 @@ static void start_timer_thread_and_unlock(void) {
   // to leak through g_completed_threads and be freed in gc_completed_threads()
   // before "&ct->t" is written to, causing a use-after-free.
   gpr_mu_lock(&g_mu);
-  gpr_thd_new(&ct->t, "grpc_global_timer", timer_thread, ct, &opt);
+  gpr_thd_new(&ct->t, "grpc_global_timer", timer_thread, ct);
   gpr_mu_unlock(&g_mu);
 }