Remove the call to isAlive() which is broken #17
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The update of glibc from 2.31 to 2.35 in Ubuntu changed the semantics of pthread_kill. It used to return an error when a dead thread exited, and now it returns 0.
This new behavior is POSIX-compatible as the result of pthread_kill on a thread that died produces undefined behavior, so techincally 0 is valid result.
This isAlive() will return that a dead thread is alive in the newer glibc versions.
This patch removes the use of isAlive and instead uses tryjoin, which should behave correctly for dead threads.