threads state

hi all,

i am having a process which is going to create two more threads. and my main process which created the threads has to monitor the threads status periodially ,and if any thread is cancelled it has to recreate the thread.

can any one suggest a way to monitor the threads from the main process which is created the threads.

What language are programming in? If it is C, do you use POSIX threads (the ones in glibc)? If yes, you could Condition Variables (see the glibc manual for details).

The dumb solution:

for each thread, create a keep-alive thread which basically does

while(true) {
    t = new thread
    join(t)
    delete t
}

no seriously, to do something very similar to this in a clean way, you have something called Condition Variables in POSIX Threads. Just check out the manual and google, it is very easy to use...