hello everybody!
i am developing a client/server application for streaming audio in linux..
i have already implemented the mp3 player and buffering...

could anybody tell me how to create threads so that the child process continues to receive the audio buffer packets while the decoding of the received buffer is done by the parent process...

as far as my understanding i think will have to use fork() to create a child process(but here a copy of the whole process will be made )..CAN the child process
access the variables of the child process and vice versa?

also is it possible for me to create a new process containing of only the code to receive the incoming buffer packets and then the parent acting upon the buffer received..

could u also send me a small piece of code of whatever suggestion so i can get along quickly?

plz help this is urgent...

thanx
sameer

Fork doesn't create threads, it creats processes.

What you want to use is pthreads.

Check out the pthread_create man page for information on how to get started here... but feel free to ask any specific questions you have once you get stared. Remember, you have to add the -lpthread option to gcc to get threaded code to compile.

Threads share memory space, so all your threads will be able to see your global variables. Keep in mind that if you have a reader thread and a writer thread you probably want to implement locking on your data structure so you don't get partial reads.