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SbThread Class Reference
[Portable Threads Abstraction Classes]

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

#include <Inventor/threads/SbThread.h>

List of all members.

Public Member Functions

SbBool join (void **retval=0L)

Static Public Member Functions

static SbThreadcreate (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.


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