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I have been wondering what the difference between pthread_rwlock_lock and pthread_mutex_lock is. Both these routines acquire an exclusive rw lock on an enclosed region.

So I performed a simple...

Got it. Thank you.

Thats not what I am looking for. I have written a C program that spawns posix threads using pthread_create. I want to programmatically get the no. of threads spawned by the program at some instance...

Hello
Is there a way to get the no. of threads spawned by a program in C?
There is no function in pthread.h that does this. :(

I get it.

Thanks a lot for your help. -- Kshitij

I am not sure I understand. But you were right, if the above code is placed in the main() function, it works fine, but if I place it in a separate function and call this function from main(), it...

I am facing a strange error while creating posix threads:
Given below are two snippets of code, the first one works whereas the second one gives a garbage value in the output.

Snippet 1
This...