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 SbThread *	create (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)

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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.

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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

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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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The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

• SbThread.h
• thread.cpp