Threads in NMM

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April 2007

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Table of Contents
1. Class Thread
2. Class ThreadMutex
3. Class ThreadCondition
4. Class MutexGuard

1. Class Thread

This Class Thread is a wrapper for the correspond platform dependent threading library. The start-method creates a new thread of control that executes concurrently with the calling thread. The methods and the arguments are similar to the corresponding low-level methods. The following example shows how to create a new Thread.

void* thread_method(void* argument) {
  ....
  return 0;
}

class Foo::foo() {
  Thread new_thread;
  new_thread.start(thread_method,0); //runs the method thread_method in a new thread,
                                     //with no arguments.
  ...

  new_thread.join()                  // blocks until the thread terminates
}

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