How to make main thread continue after it create child thread?

Question

im trying to make a simple socket program. When my server send command, the client will create child thread and execute the function. It waiting for the child thread to be done. But i need the main thread still recv my command to do another work. Here is my code:

Client

int StartServices() {   
    HANDLE hThread;     
    DWORD dwThread;     
    hThread = CreateThread(NULL, 0, (LPTHREAD_START_ROUTINE)TestFunction, NULL, 0, NULL);   
    if (hThread) {      
        return WaitForSingleObject(hThread, 10000);     
    }   
    else {      
        return 1;   
    }
}

Answer 1

If I got it right, You may need just to remove return WaitForSingleObject(hThread, 10000); from the code.

int StartServices() {   
    HANDLE hThread;     
    DWORD dwThread;     
    hThread = CreateThread(NULL, 0, (LPTHREAD_START_ROUTINE)TestFunction, NULL, 0, NULL);   
    if (hThread) {      
        //return WaitForSingleObject(hThread, 10000);  
        return 0;   
    }   
    else {      
        return 1;   
    }
}

So, there will be no 10 secounds waiting.