Thread Per-Request (Cont.)

Now the request handling function.

void* handle_request(void* data)
{
  struct handler_thread_data* pdata =
      (struct handler_thread_data*)data;

  /* must be detached, since we don't use 'join' */
  /* to synchronize our termination.             */
  pthread_detach(pthread_self());

  handle_request(pdata->request);
  free_request_data(pdata->request);

  /* notify 'management' that we're done. */
  pthread_mutex_lock(&pdata->threads->mutex);
  pdata->threads->num_threads--;
  pthread_cond_signal(&pdata->threads->cond);
  pthread_mutex_unlock(&pdata->threads->mutex);

  free(pdata); /* no one else can free this. */

  return NULL;
}