Re: OO Threads (was RE: Learning C)

[Matt Scott <mmscott@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Java Threads" by O'Rielly covers OO threads very well.  You may not be
looking to do thread programming in Java but it may be general enough to
allow you to transfer the concepts to other OO languages.  Good luck.


Matt Scott
mmscott@cs.wmich.edu

On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Jack Littrell wrote:

> Interesting question.  I guess you'd have a function which would
> instantiate the object and call its member funtion (method).  Of
> course, the operating systems course I took was also procedurally
> oriented so it is highly possible that I am missing something here,
> too.  Just glad that I finally get to use something relevant to that
> class!
> 
> Jack 
> 
> Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> 
> I've been reading the pthreads book by O'Rielly to brush up on my
> knowledge of threads, and I've got a question for all you OO (Object
> Oriented) people.  And that's that threads make sense in a procedural
> world, for example I do something like:
>  
> void fucntion1(int r1);
>    int main() {
>    pthread_t  thread1;
>    int r1;
>    pthread_create(thread1, NULL, (void*) function1, r1);
>    ...
> }
>  
> And the function I declared gets executed as the start of the thread.
> I can't figure out/envision how this works in the OO model, and
> O'Rielly doesn't really mention it.  Do I pass a pointed to a method
> in an object?  Or in C++ can I pass a pointer to an object itself?
> 
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