Practical C Programming

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1. Define a variable of the type pthread_t to store the thread identifier:

pthread_t tid;

2. Create a thread and pass the identifier that was created in the preceding step to the pthread_create function. The thread is created with the default attributes. Also, specify a function that needs to be executed to create the thread:

pthread_create(&tid, NULL, runThread, NULL);

3. In the function, you will be displaying a text message to indicate that the thread has been created and is running:

printf("Running Thread \n");

4. Invoke a for loop to display the sequence of numbers from 1 to 5 through the running thread:

for(i=1;i<=5;i++) printf("%d\n",i);

5. Invoke the pthread_join method in the main function to make the main method wait until ...