What is the meaning of the term “thread-safe”?
Thread-safe code is code that will work even if many Threads are executing it simultaneously. http://mindprod.com/jgloss/threadsafe.html
Thread-safe code is code that will work even if many Threads are executing it simultaneously. http://mindprod.com/jgloss/threadsafe.html
-pthread tells the compiler to link in the pthread library as well as configure the compilation for threads. For example, the following shows the macros that get defined when the -pthread option gets used on the GCC package installed on my Ubuntu machine: $ gcc -pthread -E -dM test.c > dm.pthread.txt $ gcc -E -dM … Read more
Look, there’s no easy way to do this. I’m working on a project that is inherently multithreaded. Events come in from the operating system and I have to process them concurrently. The simplest way to deal with testing complex, multithreaded application code is this: If it’s too complex to test, you’re doing it wrong. If … Read more
What is the difference between a process and a thread?
The thread support in the standard library allows the created threads to outlive the thread that created them; that’s a good thing! However, if you were to pass a reference to a stack-allocated variable to one of these threads, there’s no guarantee that the variable will still be valid by the time the thread executes. … Read more
A race condition occurs when two or more threads can access shared data and they try to change it at the same time. Because the thread scheduling algorithm can swap between threads at any time, you don’t know the order in which the threads will attempt to access the shared data. Therefore, the result of … Read more