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Old 05-08-2008
ramen_noodle ramen_noodle is offline
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The reason this is not working is that your main function doesn't have an event loop and/or doesn't block on the created thread.
An easy way out is to return the created thread tid, do not detach, and call pthread_join in main.

HTH.
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