How To Initialize concurrent processes in C?

I wrote a program in BACI, now I'm gona write in C. But my question to start off his how to initialize concurrent processes? In BACI i did it like this:

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cobegin {

manager(); teller1(); teller2(); teller5();teller3();teller4();

}

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This would simulate any of the processes randomly.

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Originally Posted by Matus

I wrote a program in BACI, now I'm gona write in C. But my question to start off his how to initialize concurrent processes? In BACI i did it like this:

Code:

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cobegin {

manager(); teller1(); teller2(); teller5();teller3();teller4();

}

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This would simulate any of the processes randomly.

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After a quick Google, it seems this would simulate all of the "processes", concurrently.

The C(/C++) equivalent is threads. There are several libraries out there, which depend on OS, etc. pthreads works almost everywhere, including windows, if you find the appropriate library. (Otherwise, Windows has its own API for threading)
The Boost library has some classes for threads as well.

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Originally Posted by Cactus_Hugger

After a quick Google, it seems this would simulate all of the "processes", concurrently.

The C(/C++) equivalent is threads. There are several libraries out there, which depend on OS, etc. pthreads works almost everywhere, including windows, if you find the appropriate library. (Otherwise, Windows has its own API for threading)
The Boost library has some classes for threads as well.

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Actually threads are quite different from processes (at least when we consider what I understand with a process). Threads have full access to each other's address spaces, whereas processes do not. So with threads, it is possible to share data via global variables. It is also possible to have a wild pointer in one thread, which trashes other thread's stack.

So if you want to have concurrent processes, it is possible to write independent executables, and launch them via some standard function (like system() ), or then you can use tools your OS gives to you. (On linux, see fork() ).

:S lol thought it was gona be simple, now im more puzzled, i'll try googling in a bit

for threads almost all compilers have posix threads...found in the library pthread.h

as for process,it depends how OS spawns a process unix uses fork() to spawn a child process...unix , as far as i have come across does not have concurrent processes,i.e no "normal process",except "init" can spawn on its own and run independently reporting to no one...every process has a parent and a parent can have child processes.BUT processes can run concurrently or they can be suspended to wait for its child...

as for windows? i have no idea...