CSCI 241 Systems Programming Labs

Part 1. Hello threads! (10 points)

In this part, you’re going to write a very short program that will spawn several threads.

There are multiple ways to spawn threads in Rust. We’re going to use the thread::scope() method. Click the link to read its documentation, specifically the example. Pay particular attention to how the scope() function takes a closure as an argument. That closure has an argument s which is used to spawn new threads by calling s.spawn(). The spawn() method takes a (zero-argument) closure as an argument.

Your task

Modify the starter code in the hello directory to spawn n threads in a loop where n is the value returned by thread::available_parallelism().

for thread_num in 0..n.into() { }

Each of your threads should print hello from its thread number. Here’s an example run of the program. Your output will likely look different since you may have a different number of threads and they will run in some unpredictable order.

$ cargo run --quiet
This program should probably only use 10 threads
Hello from thread 0
Hello from thread 1
Hello from thread 2
Hello from thread 5
Hello from thread 6
Hello from thread 3
Hello from thread 4
Hello from thread 8
Hello from thread 9
Hello from thread 7