Re: Limited amount of variables in a multithreaded programm?

2000-01-04 Thread Steffen Merkel
Hello, thanks for all your help again first. As I stated in a previous question, I'v been learning C now for only some weeks. It seems that I started to work on a project that Is far far away from my knowledge :-) On the other hand I don't like learning in small steps. I always try to reach somet

Limited amount of variables in a multithreaded programm?

2000-01-02 Thread Steffen Merkel
Hello, I have a very strange problem here, which is that I can only define a limited amount of variables within a multithreaded program. Some days ago I described the following problem: >I want to write a programm which checks if a server is up by >pinging it. I looks like that: #

Sorry, but another thread problem!

1999-12-29 Thread Steffen Merkel
Hello, first let me thank all of you for all your great help and the dozens of responses I got. Unfortunately I have a very strange problem in a multithreaded programm I'm writing now. I want to write a programm which checks if a server is up by pinging it. I looks like that: ###

Re: Kernel threads

1999-12-28 Thread Steffen Merkel
Hello, From: Kip Macy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Richard Seaman, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > They may be preemptive, but I saw a lot of instances with Lyris where one > thread could easily monopolize processor time at the expense of all > others and I had to add sleeps in at places. Does this mean I

Re: Kernel threads

1999-12-28 Thread Steffen Merkel
Hello, > On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 09:34:49AM -0800, Kip Macy wrote: > > > The words "POSIX threads" only describes the API. It says nothing about > > the implementation. On FreeBSD they are non-preemptive user level threads > > (your main was never yielding so the thread you launched did not get a

Kernel threads

1999-12-27 Thread Steffen Merkel
Hello, thanks for all your help on my previous posting. Meanwhile my thread-test works as I followed your instructions and included a sleep() call. But on experimenting on this topic I exchanged the sleep() call with a "while(1);" and had to see that the programm doesn't work any more. Why? I th

Posix Threads

1999-12-26 Thread Steffen Merkel
Hello, I'm learning C now for some weeks and today I wanted to program POSIX threads. Unfortunately my source seems not to run. Could you please have a look at my code and tell me whats wrong: #include #include #include void print( char *string ){ fprintf(stderr,"String: %s\n",string); }