Threads

pthreads is popular.

There's also boost::threads. While solid, and in line with Boost quality, it's apparently maintained less than some would like.

Thanks for the recommendation, though I probably not use pthreads because I have no extra computer for linux right now.

Personally I've used zThread in 2 of my applications and found it very easy to use. The drawback is that it has basically been abandoned by its developer, so there won't be any new releases.

Another option is the Adaptive Communication Environment (ACE), which has, among much other useful stuff, a very mature threading library.

pthreads is available for Windows too.
boost::threads is indeed quite popular too, and a new up-and-comer is OpenMP.
But when you're doing only simple things: mutexes, conditions and threads, making your own wrappers around the Win32- and pthread-calls isn't too hard either.

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Original post by DaBono pthreads is available for Windows too. boost::threads is indeed quite popular too, and a new up-and-comer is OpenMP. But when you're doing only simple things: mutexes, conditions and threads, making your own wrappers around the Win32- and pthread-calls isn't too hard either.

That is what I am going to do. All I need to do is run a thread and have it send messages to its parent thread (the main thread).