Hi,
I am experiencing certain difficulties using pthread in a C++ program
under SunOs. I wrote a server application in which I start a pthread
which I call reader that blocks trying to read data from a datagram
socket ( using recvfrom( ) ). In the meantime the main thread does some
useful work. The idea is that if input arrives it is read by the reader
thread and serviced appropriately and the main thread is actually never
blocked.
The problem though is that when I start my application the reader thread
is started and everything is executed up to the point at which I call the
blocking recvfrom function and then I get a Segmentation fault, instead
of just blocking the reader thread.
What is really strange is that if I exchange the recvfrom function with a
different blocking statement say: cin >> dummy; everything proceeds as it
should: the reader blocks ( until I press the enter key ), and the main
thread keeps on working.
Is there some kind of incompatibility between network functins like
recvfrom and pthreads.
Any kind of help would be appreciated.
Thanx
mich
