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Programming with POSIX Threads

Date and Time

Wednesday, May 18, 2005 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Location

MIT Building E-51, Room 145

Presenters

Jerry Feldman , Associate Director , Boston Linux & Unix - gaf blu org

Summary

An overview of POSIX threads

Abstract

* What is threads - very generic to include Sun's lwp. * Why use threads more in the context of single-threaded app vs. multi-threaded app and threadas vs. fork(). * Kernel threads vs. user threads. This is important in Linux 2.6+ kernels with NPTL. * Basic thread concepts and functions: thread creation, thread join, mutex, conditions, attributes. * Some simple examples.

Meeting Notes

Attachments

  1. Jerry's slides
  2. Jerry's tarfile

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