Portable Threads Manual

$Id: threads.texi,v 1.7 1997/09/22 09:45:16 bruncott Exp bruncott $

Projet SOR, INRIA, France

• Copying
  • Preamble
  • How to Apply These Terms to Your New Libraries
• Overview
• Install
• Generic Package Installation
  • The file hierarchy
  • Configuring
  • The various makefiles
  • Creating a new package hierarchy
    • Repository of make templates
    • Building a new package hierarchy
• Requirements
• Why ?
• Limitations
• Rationale design
  • Avoiding common pitfalls
  • Intuitive interface
  • Protecting against mistakes
• Concepts and Abtractions
  • Threads
    • Limitations
  • Mutex
    • Limitations
  • Condition variable
    • Limitations
  • Messages
    • Limitations
  • Error processing
  • Scheduling policies
  • Priorities
  • Signals
• Library Description
  • Classes
    • Thread
      • Thread Assertions
    • Mutex
      • Mutex Assertions
    • CV
    • Exception Classes
  • Functions
• How to use it
  • Preprocessor variables
    • XXX_THREAD
    • THREAD_ERROR_XXX
    • THREAD_DEBUG
      • Thread
      • Mutex
      • CV
    • NDEBUG
  • Linking with proper libraries
    • DEC OSF1/DCE
    • DEC OSF1/POSIX
    • Solaris/POSIX
    • SunOS/POSIX
    • SunOS/LWP
• Customisation
• Various port
  • Advanced Discussion
    • SunOs 4.1.x/LWP
      • Destruction of Mutexes
      • Bugs in the nbio library
    • DEC OSF1/DCE Threads
    • MIT Pthreads
    • Solaris Pthreads
• Cheating
• Extending the package
  • Barriers
  • Automatic Generic Pointers
  • Predicate
• What to do and what not to do
  • What to do
  • What not to do
• Credits
• Index

This document was generated on 11 Febuary 1998 using the texi2html translator version 1.51.