pthread的一点总结

守护线程的定义

（来自https://www.liaoxuefeng.com/wiki/1252599548343744/1306580788183074）

守护线程是为其他线程服务的线程；

所有非守护线程都执行完毕后，虚拟机退出；

守护线程不能持有需要关闭的资源（如打开文件等）。

针对JVM的，对于C++有待考证。

已经确定： daemon thread will shut down immediately when the program exits. 

If a program is running Threads that are not daemons, then the program will wait for those threads to complete before it terminates. 

 

pthread_exit() will exit the thread that calls it.

In your case since the main calls it, main thread will terminate whereas your spawned threads will continue to execute. This is mostly used in cases where the main thread is only required to spawn threads and leave the threads to do their job

pthread_join will suspend execution of the thread that has called it unless the target thread terminates

This is useful in cases when you want to wait for thread/s to terminate before further processing in main thread.

 

函数原型：

typedef unsigned long int pthread_t;

/* Create a new thread, starting with execution of START-ROUTINE
   getting passed ARG.  Creation attributed come from ATTR.  The new
   handle is stored in *NEWTHREAD.  */
extern int pthread_create (pthread_t *__restrict __newthread,
    const pthread_attr_t *__restrict __attr,
    void *(*__start_routine) (void *),
    void *__restrict __arg) __THROWNL __nonnull ((1, 3));

/* Terminate calling thread.
The registered cleanup handlers are called via exception handling
so we cannot mark this function with __THROW.*/
extern void pthread_exit (void *__retval) __attribute__ ((__noreturn__));

/* Make calling thread wait for termination of the thread TH.  The
exit status of the thread is stored in *THREAD_RETURN, if THREAD_RETURN
is not NULL.
This function is a cancellation point and therefore not marked with
__THROW.  */
extern int pthread_join (pthread_t __th, void **__thread_return);

注意：

1、pthread_create 对于的函数类型是：void* func(void *)；

2、pthread_join 获取线程返回值是二级void指针！