《Windows游戏编程大师技巧》（第二版）第11章

《Windows游戏编程大师技巧》（第二版）第11章(34)               0,               // default stack
              Printer_Thread,  // use this thread function
              (LPVOID)1,         // user data sent to thread
              0,             // creation flags, 0=start now.
              &thread_id);         // send id back in this var
// now enter into printing loop, make sure
// this is shorter than the thread,
// so thread finishes last
for (int index=0; index<25; index++)
    {
    printf("2 ");
    Sleep(100);
    }  // end for index

// note that this print statement may get
// interspliced with the output of the
// thread, very key!

printf("\nWaiting for thread to terminate\n");

// at this point the secondary thread so still be working,
// now we will wait for it
WaitForSingleObject(thread_handle, INFINITE);

// at this point the thread should be dead
CloseHandle(thread_handle);

// end with a blank line
printf("\nAll threads terminated.\n");

}  // end main
输出示例：
Starting threads...
2 1 2 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 1
1 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 1
Waiting for thread to terminate
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
All threads terminated.
这个程序很简单。通常在创建从线程后就进入打印循环。当这些终止时，调用函数WaitForSingleObject()。如果主线程还有其他工作要做，则继续进行。但在本例中，主线程没有其他任务，因而直接进入等待状态。如果你在运行该程序之前运行了SYSMON.EXE，你会看见进入等待状态后CPU的占用率极低，而在忙循环中CPU被占用得相当厉害。