Linux Threads suspend/resume

Question

I\'m writing a code in which I have two threads running in parallel.

1st is the main thread which started the 2nd thread. 2nd thread is just a simple thread executin

Answer 1

You can suspend a thread simply by signal

pthread_mutex_t mutex;
static void thread_control_handler(int n, siginfo_t* siginfo, void* sigcontext) {
    // wait time out
    pthread_mutex_lock(&mutex);
    pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex);
}
// suspend a thread for some time
void thread_suspend(int tid, int time) {
    struct sigaction act;
    struct sigaction oact;
    memset(&act, 0, sizeof(act));
    act.sa_sigaction = thread_control_handler;
    act.sa_flags = SA_RESTART | SA_SIGINFO | SA_ONSTACK;
    sigemptyset(&act.sa_mask);
    pthread_mutex_init(&mutex, 0);
    if (!sigaction(SIGURG, &act, &oact)) {
        pthread_mutex_lock(&mutex);
        kill(tid, SIGURG);
        sleep(time);
        pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex);
    }
}