Re: Basic Question on POSIX Threads

Here is a skeleton of how I handle pthreads (the same pattern works with
win32 threads) in C++; Ther is of course a lot more to write for the
thread management itself but the importants things are there. I use it
by writting a derived class that overload the run() method.

Hope it helps.

class Thread
{
   static void* glue( void* );

   private:
      pthread_t tid;
      pthread_attr_t attr;

   public:
      Thread();

      virtual void* run() = 0;
};

void* Thread::glue( void* t )
{
   return ((Thread*)t)->run();
}

Thread::Thread()
{
   // ...
   pthread_create( &this->tid, &this->attr, Thread::glue, (void*)this );
   // ...
}