program using threads in C in linux environment.

See http://www.llnl.gov/computing/tutorials/pthreads/ ("POSIX Threads Programming"). You'll find all the code and samples that you need there (http://www.llnl.gov/computing/tutorials/pthreads/#Joining in particular)

Hi mmadhuso,

You description seem to be confusing threads and tasks.  Threads are designed for multiple simultaneous execution logic.  A great example is the brower you're using to read this which has one thread dedicated to monitoring human intervention (keypresses, mouse movement, etc) and another thread dedicated to rendering the page that you're reading.  (There may be many other threads, too.)  If one of the threads fails (aborts) the entire application fails.

Tasks are different.  They are completely separate work spaces that typically communicate with signals, wait for each other, etc.  Just as you described.

And this does sound very much like a homework assignment.  Therefore, you need to provide EE with the code, we'll help you to get it right.


Good Luck,
Kent

hi Kent

Its not my Home work by the way   ,  the code  is
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

void  *newwrites(void *mess)
      {
             char *pch;int avail;
             char str[32]=" ";
             int inhandle ;
             printf("In newwrite ");
           do
             {
             inhandle=open("/proc/meminfo",O_RDONLY);
             read(inhandle,str,26);
             read(inhandle,str,26);
             pch = strtok (str," "); pch = strtok (NULL," ");
             avail=atoi(pch);
             printf("%d \n",avail);
             close(inhandle);
             }
            while(avail>400000);

     }
int  main()
{
       char *message1 = "Thread 1";
        pid_t child_pID;
        int status,rc;
       pthread_t thread1 ;int s;
          rc =    pthread_create(&thread1, NULL, newwrites, (void *)message1);
         if (rc){
         printf("ERROR; return code from pthread_create() is %d\n", rc);
         exit(-1);
         printf(" created thread \n ");
    /*
   do some operation while the thread is running
  */  
      pthread_exit(NULL);

 return 0;
}

hope this helps

Any chance getting you interested in checking out the above tutorial?

There are a couple of ways to go about what you've asked.   :~}

Based on your code, you probably want to put a pthread_join() function call in place of the "do some operation while the thread is running".  This will cause the main thread to block until newwrites() completes and then end the newwrites() thread.


Kent

hi JKR
i have gone thru the tutorials but without any success

Hi Kent

But i dont want the main to be blocked till the newwrites is completed

i mean both should run in parallel ,

main should perform the work along with newwrites()  this is where the problem lies

thanks a lot for the discussion  

You can certainly do work before the call to pthread_join().  It just synchronizes the collection of the threads back into one execution point.

If you want the two threads to handshake as to status, you'll probably want to use a mutex.  Are you familiar with them?

Kent

Hi Kent

So by using  pthread_join() will the controll be given back to the main ? thats a imp part here .

can u explain a bit more on usage of mutex   in my code


manish

>>i have gone thru the tutorials but without any success

In such a short time? Now, that's amazing. BTW, in my first comment, I added http://www.llnl.gov/computing/tutorials/pthreads/#Joining so that this is easier to find.

A mutex is a lot to explain in a few sentences.  Here's pretty good link to a C tutorial that covers threads and mutex topics, along with examples.

  http://riki-lb1.vet.ohio-state.edu/mqlin/computec/tutorials/C_Tutorial/

Kent

hi jkr

I had read these doc before i i mailed to EE

can u help me acheiving my task

Have you compiled the code as multi-threaded?  By default, the system will build it as single threaded even though you added the pthread library.