Multithreaded service in C

//
// Multithreaded Hello World server
//
#include "zhelpers.h"
#include <pthread.h>

static void *
worker_routine (void *context) {
// Socket to talk to dispatcher
void *receiver = zmq_socket (context, ZMQ_REP);
zmq_connect (receiver, "inproc://workers");

while (true) {
char *string = s_recv (receiver);
printf ("Received request: [%s]\n", string);
free (string);
// Do some 'work'
sleep (1);
// Send reply back to client
s_send (receiver, "World");
}
zmq_close (receiver);
return NULL;
}

int main (void)
{
void *context = zmq_ctx_new ();

// Socket to talk to clients
void *clients = zmq_socket (context, ZMQ_ROUTER);
zmq_bind (clients, "tcp://*:5555");

// Socket to talk to workers
void *workers = zmq_socket (context, ZMQ_DEALER);
zmq_bind (workers, "inproc://workers");

// Launch pool of worker threads
int thread_nbr;
for (thread_nbr = 0; thread_nbr < 5; thread_nbr++) {
pthread_t worker;
pthread_create (&worker, NULL, worker_routine, context);
}
// Connect work threads to client threads via a queue proxy
zmq_proxy (clients, workers, NULL);

// We never get here but clean up anyhow
zmq_close (clients);
zmq_close (workers);
zmq_ctx_destroy (context);
return 0;
}