Thread Creation/Termination

When a multi-threaded program starts executing, it has one thread, which executes the 'main' function.

In order to create a thread, we need to have a 'thread function', and to use the "pthread_create" function:

  #include <pthread.h>   /* for pthread functions */

  /* the thread function */
  void* thread_func(void* data)
  {
    printf("Hello, i am a new thread\n");

    pthread_exit(NULL);
  }