Question

I’m attempting to run an event loop from within a pthread but I’ve run into a problem I can’t seem to google-fix. Basically, it looks like this:

event_thread = pthread_create(&event_thread, NULL, 
  (void *) g_main_loop_run, (void *) event_loop);

printf("GOT HERE\n");

The message below pthread_create never prints, is there a way to “fire and forget” a thread?

Answer 1

Well, figured that one out as soon as I posted this, here’s what I ended up doing:

pthread_attr_t attr;
...
pthread_attr_init(&thread_attr);
pthread_attr_setdetachstate(&thread_attr, PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED);
event_thread = pthread_create(&event_thread, &thread_attr, 
    (void *) g_main_loop_run, (void *) event_loop);

You just need to set the threads state to “detached”.