Re: [AD] public thread API

[Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 22:37 +1000, Peter Wang wrote:
> On 2008-08-06, Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 11:04 +1000, Peter Wang wrote:
> > > 
> > > Taking it a bit further, al_create_thread could not just allocate the
> > > space for the thread handle, but call pthread_create.  But we would not
> > > actually execute the user's thread function until al_start_thread.
> > > I believe this is useful for cases like:
> > > 
> > >     T = al_create_thread(thread_func);
> > >     do further initialisation, using T
> > >     al_start_thread(T);
> > > 
> > > Not sure how common it is.
> > > 
> > 
> > I was thinking about creating the threads first, then you could run them
> > multiple times, then destroy them. (So would not call pthread_create I
> > think.)
> 
> Any particular use for that?
> 

Well, nothing which couldn't be done in another way as well. But it
would be straightforward to implement using the current internal API,
while I have no idea how calling pthread_create without running the
function would be done with it.

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Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>