Fix all instances of argument-less function signatures.
Fix all instances of auto-cleanup variables declared after they need to
be in scope.
Change-Id: I3a005df03ede971e08d4f62d7c7711a1913fda5e
Instead of having each thread sleep only a little while and then
periodically check for the shutdown flag, make them sleep longer and use
pthread_cancel() to interrupt the sleep during a shutdown in the
designated break points.
Change-Id: I13f1872a0176697e064ceef4062db6ca6ccf7a0e