Structures (or “structs” in C) allow you to group several related variables and treat them as one unit. They are a mechanism for extending the type system of the C language by introducing user-defined ...

I'm quite new to programming, so please do forgive my newbie questions and thanks for your help in advance! : )<BR><BR>I'm trying to write a little program in C that ...

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 ...