Quote-of-the-Day | : book : Delivers the Quote of the Day to your terminal | Media library

I'm writing a simple quote server in C and running on Linux. It should pick a random quote from a text file and then start two threads:

• the first is in charge of accepting incoming connections and respond with the selected quote,
• the second should check once an hour if a day has passed. If it detects that a new day has started it should randomly pick another quote.

My problem is that while the connection thread works fine, the other doesn't even start.

To confirm this I've tried to add a debug print right at the start of the function executed by the thread and another inside it's while loop and none gets printed (those are removed from the code shown here).

I've also added some code to check the pthread_create() return value copied from it's man page but I'm unsure if it's actually working since it doesn't detect any error.

I've tied to first start the "timer thread" first and not start the connection thread at all but still it doesn't get executed. Here follows the relevant code, you can find the full source on GitHub: