// Copyright 2021 Jeisson Hidalgo-Cespedes CC-BY-4 // Creates an arbitrary amount of threads that greet in stdout #include #include #include #include #include int create_threads(size_t thread_count); void* run(void* data); typedef struct { size_t thread_number; size_t thread_count; } private_data_t; int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { size_t thread_count = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN); if (argc == 2) { if (sscanf(argv[1], "%zu", &thread_count) != 1 || errno) { fprintf(stderr, "error: invalid thread count\n"); return EXIT_FAILURE; } } int error = create_threads(thread_count); return error; } int create_threads(size_t thread_count) { int error = EXIT_SUCCESS; pthread_t* threads = (pthread_t*) calloc(thread_count, sizeof(pthread_t)); private_data_t* private_data = (private_data_t*) calloc(thread_count, sizeof(private_data_t)); if (threads && private_data) { for (size_t index = 0; index < thread_count; ++index) { private_data[index].thread_number = index; private_data[index].thread_count = thread_count; if (pthread_create(&threads[index], /*attr*/ NULL, run , &private_data[index]) == EXIT_SUCCESS) { } else { fprintf(stderr, "Could not create secondary thread %zu\n", index); error = 21; break; } } printf("Hello from main thread\n"); for (size_t index = 0; index < thread_count; ++index) { pthread_join(threads[index], /*value_ptr*/ NULL); } free(threads); free(private_data); } else { fprintf(stderr, "Could not allocate memory for %zu threads\n" , thread_count); error = 22; } return error; } void* run(void* data) { const private_data_t* private_data = (private_data_t*)data; printf("Hello from secondary thread %zu of %zu\n", private_data->thread_number , private_data->thread_count); return NULL; }