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#Multithreading in c to read disk usage.
tidal crestBOT
lucid canopy
That's roughly it but you simply hand out different files to the other threads, so there is no need for locking.
lucid canopy
or was your idea a function will first read through all files/subdirectories in a directory and then give out directories/files to threads?
Yes. Or you can create a work queue.
Yes it's roughly like that.
lucid canopy
Just two threads that pick up the jobs as they are available.
terse cypress
@teal zodiac You should also ask yourself if you even need multithreading, i.e. whether your performance is CPU or I/O bound.
If it's I/O bound (i.e. limited by the speed of your hard drive) then multithreading can actually worsen performance, especially so if the hard drive in question is a HDD
Meh, okay
tidal crestBOT