// create tagged thread data
// the output file is of the form:
//         <tag><string of data>\n
// where tag is an integer value in a unsigned char.
// Allows up to 255 threads to be run in this application
// <string of data> is any printable characters
// Because tag is an integer value written as char,
// you need to use od to look at the output file, suggest:
//            od -c out.file |more

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <iostream.h>
#include <fstream.h>
#include <thread.h>

struct thread_args {
  char* filename;
  int thread_tag;
};

const int thread_bufsize = 256;

// entry routine for each thread
void* ThreadDuties(void* v) {
// obtain arguments for this thread
  thread_args* tt = (thread_args*)v;
  char ibuf[thread_bufsize];
  // open thread input file
  ifstream instr(tt->filename);
  stream_locker lockout(cout, stream_locker::lock_defer);
  while(1) {
  // read a line at a time
    instr.getline(ibuf, thread_bufsize - 1, ’\n’);
    if(instr.eof())
      break;
  // lock cout stream so the i/o operation is atomic
    lockout.lock();
  // tag line and send to cout
    cout << (unsigned char)tt->thread_tag << ibuf << "\n";
    lockout.unlock();
  }
  return 0;
}

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
  // argv: 1+ list of filenames per thread
   if(argc < 2) {
     cout << “usage: " << argv[0] << " <files..>\n";
     exit(1);
   }
  int num_threads = argc - 1;
  int total_tags = 0;

// array of thread_ids
  thread_t created_threads[thread_bufsize];
// array of arguments to thread entry routine
  thread_args thr_args[thread_bufsize];
  int i;
  for(i = 0; i < num_threads; i++) {
    thr_args[i].filename = argv[1 + i];
// assign a tag to a thread - a value less than 256
    thr_args[i].thread_tag = total_tags++;
// create threads
    thr_create(0, 0, ThreadDuties, &thr_args[i],
           THR_SUSPENDED, &created_threads[i]);
  }

  for(i = 0; i < num_threads; i++) {
    thr_continue(created_threads[i]);
  }
  for(i = 0; i < num_threads; i++) {
    thr_join(created_threads[i], 0, 0);
  }
  return 0;
}