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+/********************************************************
+ * An example source module to accompany...
+ *
+ * "Using POSIX Threads: Programming with Pthreads"
+ * by Brad nichols, Dick Buttlar, Jackie Farrell
+ * O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
+ *
+ ********************************************************
+ * stat_sigwait.c
+ *
+ * Simple example of pthreads and signals.
+ */
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <signal.h>
+#include <time.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+
+#include <pthread.h>
+
+#define MAX_NUM_THREADS 10
+
+pthread_mutex_t stats_lock = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;
+int mean, samples, total;
+
+void *report_stats(void *p)
+{
+ int caught;
+ sigset_t sigs_to_catch;
+
+ /* Identify our thread */
+ printf("\nreport_stats() started.\n");
+
+ /*
+ * We inherited a thread sigmask with all the signals
+ * blocked. So, we can wait on whatever signals we're
+ * interested in and (as long as no other thread waits
+ * for them) we'll be sure return from sigwait() to
+ * handle it.
+ */
+
+ /* JRS 13 May 2002: this has a race condition, which is obvious if
+ you fire SIGUSR1s at it fast enough -- once sigwait returns,
+ there is no hander whilst it does the rest of the loop, so if a
+ signal arrives then, the program is killed, since that's the
+ default action for SIGUSR1. */
+
+ /* set this thread's signal mask to block out SIGUSR1 */
+ sigemptyset(&sigs_to_catch);
+ sigaddset(&sigs_to_catch, SIGUSR1);
+
+ for (;;) {
+ sigwait(&sigs_to_catch, &caught);
+
+ pthread_mutex_lock(&stats_lock);
+ mean = total/samples;
+ printf("\nreport_stats(): mean = %d, samples = %d\n", mean, samples);
+ pthread_mutex_unlock(&stats_lock);
+ }
+ return NULL;
+}
+/*
+ * worker_thread --
+ *
+ * Don't read too much into what this thread does. It's
+ * a very simpleminded example. The only interesting thing
+ * it does is write to the global statistics data-- which
+ * means the thread processing the signal has to protect
+ * against simultaneous access.
+ */
+void *worker_thread(void *p)
+{
+ time_t now;
+ for (;;) {
+
+ sleep(1 + (*(int*)p) % 2 );
+
+ now = time(NULL);
+
+ pthread_mutex_lock(&stats_lock);
+ total+=((int)now)%60; /* probably not the safest thing to do but
+ it's just an example */
+ samples++;
+ pthread_mutex_unlock(&stats_lock);
+ }
+ /* Won't get here. */
+ return NULL;
+}
+
+extern int
+main(void)
+{
+ int i;
+ pthread_t threads[MAX_NUM_THREADS];
+ int num_threads = 0;
+ sigset_t sigs_to_block;
+
+
+ /* Identify our thread */
+ printf("main() (pid %d) running in thread 0x%x\n",
+ getpid(), (int)pthread_self());
+
+ /*
+ * Set this thread's signal mask to block SIGUSR1
+ * Other threads will inherit the mask
+ */
+ sigemptyset(&sigs_to_block);
+ sigaddset(&sigs_to_block, SIGUSR1);
+ pthread_sigmask(SIG_BLOCK, &sigs_to_block, NULL);
+
+ /* spawn statistics reporting thread */
+ pthread_create(&threads[num_threads++],
+ NULL,
+ report_stats,
+ NULL);
+
+ /* spawn the threads */
+ for (i=num_threads; i<MAX_NUM_THREADS; i++) {
+ pthread_create(&threads[num_threads++],
+ NULL,
+ worker_thread,
+ &i);
+ }
+
+ printf("main()\t\t\t\t%d threads created\n",num_threads);
+
+ /* wait until all threads have finished */
+ for (i = 0; i < num_threads; i++) {
+ pthread_join(threads[i], NULL);
+ printf("main()\t\tjoined to thread %d \n", i);
+ }
+
+ printf("main()\t\tall %d threads have finished. \n", num_threads);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+