threads......

im working on an application that handles incoming connections....
each connection is handled with a thread.. the max number of threads is 100

imy code looks like this:

int threads=0, max_threads=100;

main()
{
         while( SOMETHING )
         {
                  if(threads < max_threads)
                  {
                           do_stuff();
                           threads++;
                           pthread_create(&tid, NULL, &my_thread_function, NULL);
                  }       
         }
}

my_thread_function()
{
         do_more_stuff();
         ...
         ...
         ...
         threads--;
}

im having problems figuring out what am i suppose to do with the thread id var?
an array ?
how can i tell when an tid value is ready for use again ?

thanks in advance for your help....

why do you have to worry about the thread ids leave that to the theads lib ...instead you should just worry abouyt the number of threads that you have spawned so that you may stop creating any more threads once you limit has been reached...

the moment you see that you have exceeded hundred ..kill the thread you might want to kill by using pthread_cancel/pthread_kill or pthread_exit(from inside the thread)...

and you might want to store the thread ids in an array so that you may want to kill or cancel...

so i can use the same pthread_t variable for all the threads i create ?

pthread_t tid;
for(i=0; i<100; i++)
pthread_create(&tid, NULL, &thread, NULL);

is these legal ?

while this might work..but you'd not be able to wait for those threads(and thus control those threads, as you would like to)...as you are overwriting the same memory over and over again...thus leaving you with just the tid of the last thread created, and not all the threads..
that is why i was asking you to create and array of threead ids...

those ids would be used to wait for a thread in pthread_join...for sending signals to a particular thread, etc

ok, thanks alot