Tue 2003-06-03 18:16, Neil Heller (1:106/2000) wrote to Jasen Betts:

 NH> This is completely untested - I'm writing this in an NT session but
 NH> only  do pthreads in *nix.  I guess I'm too lazy to keep rebooting.

You should probably check out Cygwin.  With it you can compile code that
uses pthreads, among other things.

 NH> This code will check every 5 seconds to see if the user has typed
 NH> "foo"  anywhere in his wise saying.  Then all the threads will be
 NH> terminated  and the program will end.

There are some syntax problems with your code, and also a bug where if
writer_func() sets the value of "there" to 2 it can clobber that
value before nanosleep() has completed.

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