Function

GLibThreadtry_new

since: 2.32

Declaration 

GThread*
g_thread_try_new (
  const gchar* name,
  GThreadFunc func,
  gpointer data,
  GError** error
)

Description

This function is the same as g_thread_new() except that it allows for the possibility of failure.

If a thread can not be created (due to resource limits), error is set and NULL is returned.

Available since: 2.32

Parameters

name

Type: const gchar*

An (optional) name for the new thread.

The argument can be NULL.
The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
func

Type: GThreadFunc

A function to execute in the new thread.

data

Type: gpointer

An argument to supply to the new thread.

The argument can be NULL.
The data is owned by the caller of the function.
error

Type: GError **

The return location for a recoverable error.

The argument can be NULL.
If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to a NULL GError*.
The argument will left initialized to NULL by the function if there are no errors.
In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Type: GThread

The new GThread, or NULL if an error occurred.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.