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A class for managing threads.

Synopsis

#include <Inventor/threads/SbThread.h>

Public Member Functions

SbBool join (void **retval=0L)

Static Public Member Functions

static SbThread * create (void *(*func)(void *), void *closure)
static void destroy (SbThread *thread)
static SbBool join (SbThread *thread, void **retval=0L)

Protected Member Functions

SbThread (cc_thread *thrd)
~SbThread (void)

Detailed Description

A class for managing threads.

This class provides a portable framework around the tasks of instantiating, starting, stopping and joining threads.

It wraps the underlying native thread-handling toolkit in a transparent manner, to make multiplatform threads programming straightforward for the application programmer.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

SbThread::SbThread (cc_thread * thread) [inline], [protected]

Protected constructor handling the internal thread ADT.

See also

SbThread::create

SbThread::~SbThread (void) [inline], [protected]

Destructor.

See also

SbThread::destroy

Member Function Documentation

static SbThread * SbThread::create (void *(*)(void *) func, void * closure) [inline], [static]

This function creates a new thread, or returns NULL on failure.

static void SbThread::destroy (SbThread * thread) [inline], [static]

This function destroys a thread.

int SbThread::join (void ** retval = 0L) [inline]

This function waits on the death of the given thread, returning the thread's return value at the location pointed to by retval.

static int SbThread::join (SbThread * thread, void ** retval = 0L) [inline], [static]

This function waits on the death of the given thread, returning the thread's return value at the location pointed to by retval.

Author

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Referenced By

The man page SbThread.3coin2(3) is an alias of SbThread.3coin3(3).

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