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Creating and Managing Threads

Use POSIX threads (pthread) to create and control threads in C.

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Creating and Managing Threads

In multithreading, we create multiple threads to execute tasks concurrently.

In this lesson, you will learn:

  • How to create multiple threads in C.
  • How to wait for threads to finish execution.
  • How to pass arguments to threads.
Creating and Managing Threads — illustration 1

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Creating Multiple Threads

We use pthread_create() to create multiple threads.

Syntax:

pthread_create(&thread, NULL, function, argument);

Each thread runs independently but shares memory with other threads.

All lessons in this course

  1. Introduction to Threads
  2. Creating and Managing Threads
  3. Synchronization and Race Conditions
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