How do you run several pthreads, in C, and detect the first to terminate? I m thinking there has got to be an interface similar to select() for sockets to do this with threads. Thanks, Chenz

How do I check if a thread is terminated? In my case, I have my_pthread[5] and I want to check if any of 5 threads has finished its job (is terminated? - I m not sure) then I can give them more work ...

What is the difference between Go s multithreading approach and other approaches, such as pthread, boost::thread or Java Threads?

Does anybody know of (or can post) an example of the use of thread-specific data? I m looking for something that s clearly explained and easy to understand. I ve got a global char * variable that I m ...

I m having trouble passing a pointer to a structure as an argument to a thread cancellation cleanup handler. Here s some sample code that blows up when it hits the compiler. Any idea what I m doing ...

i was trying to write a simple multithreaded program. It is dumping the core. I have my function that is called when a thread is created below: void *BusyWork(void *t) { int i; int *tid; int ...

On unix, how could we know whether the system is multiprocessor or uniprocessor?

My current understanding of condition variables is that all blocked (waiting) threads are inserted into a basic FIFO queue, the first item of which is awakened when signal() is called. Is there any ...