Passing Arguments to Threads

pthread_t thread_ID;

int fd, result ;

result = pthread_create(&thread_ID,

(pthread_attr_t *)NULL, myThreadFcn, (void *)&fd);

if (result != 0)

printf("Error: %s\n", strerror(result));

• we can pass any variable (including a structure or array) to our thread function; assumes thread function knows what type to expect

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