Threads(Chapter 3 of Concurrent Programming on Windows)

 1 #include <stdio.h>
 2 #include <windows.h>
 3 
 4 DWORD WINAPI MyThreadStart(LPVOID);
 5 
 6 int main(int argc, wchar_t * argv[])
 7 {
 8     HANDLE hThread;
 9     DWORD dwThreadId;
10 
11     hThread = CreateThread(NULL,
12                             0,
13                             &MyThreadStart,
14                             "Hello World",
15                             0,
16                             &dwThreadId);
17 
18     if(!hThread)
19     {
20         fprintf(stderr, "Thread creation failed: %d\r\n", GetLastError());
21         return -1;
22     }
23 
24     printf("%d: Created thread %x (ID %d)\r\n", GetCurrentThreadId(), hThread, dwThreadId);
25 
26     WaitForSingleObject(hThread, INFINITE);
27     DWORD dwExitCode;
28     GetExitCodeThread(hThread, &dwExitCode);
29     printf("%d: Thread exited: %d\r\n", GetCurrentThreadId(), dwExitCode);
30     CloseHandle(hThread);
31 
32     return 0;
33 }
34 
35 DWORD WINAPI MyThreadStart(LPVOID lpParameter)
36 {
37     printf("%d: Running: %s\r\n", GetCurrentThreadId(), reinterpret_cast<char *>(lpParameter));
38     return 0;
39 }