You seem to be worried that writing to part of a structure somehow "dirties" the rest so it's no longer thread-safe. That's not how it works, a structure is really just some data laid out contiguously ...

I need to do some polling in my application's lifetime. The polling thread must be running only in specific time frames. Instead of creating a new pthread each time, I thought it would be better to ...

A thread is the smallest unit of execution within a process. A thread pool comprises of a number of threads, or, a collection of threads to be precise, and it can be used to perform several activities ...