From fc4119094fec1807ecb3ef0b73aabac2ffc1c077 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Davidsaver <mdavidsaver@bnl.gov>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 14:44:28 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] thread pool: epicsThreadPoolGetShared accepts NULL as
 defaults

---
 src/libCom/pool/threadPool.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/libCom/pool/threadPool.c b/src/libCom/pool/threadPool.c
index 7cb3bb39d..4a7c03ea1 100644
--- a/src/libCom/pool/threadPool.c
+++ b/src/libCom/pool/threadPool.c
@@ -323,10 +323,13 @@ epicsShareFunc epicsThreadPool* epicsThreadPoolGetShared(epicsThreadPoolConfig *
 {
     ELLNODE *node;
     epicsThreadPool *cur;
+    epicsThreadPoolConfig defopts;
     size_t N=epicsThreadGetCPUs();
 
-    if(!opts)
-        return NULL;
+    if(!opts) {
+        epicsThreadPoolConfigDefaults(&defopts);
+        opts = &defopts;
+    }
     /* shared pools must have a minimum allowed number of workers.
      * Use the number of CPU cores
      */