Many processes executed by one thread

Question

Is something like the following possible in C on Linux platform: I have a thread say A reading system calls(intercepting system calls) made by application processes. For each process A creates a thread, which performs the required system call and then sleeps till A wakes it up with another system call which was made by its corresponding application process. When a process exits, it worker thread ceases to exist.

So its like a number of processes converzing on a thread which then fans out to many threads with one thread per process.

Thanks

Answer 1

If you are looking for some kind of threadpool implementation and are not strictly limited to C I would recommend threadpool (which is almost Boost). Its easy to use and quite lean. The only logic you now need is the catching of the system event and then spawn a new task thread that will execute the call. The threadpool will keep track of all created threads and assign work automatically to the threads.

EDIT

Since you are limited to C, try this implementation . It looks fairly complete and rather simple, but it will basically do the job.