Multithreaded Programming Guide

Copyright

  Preface

  1.  Covering Multithreading Basics

  2.  Basic Threads Programming

  3.  Thread Create Attributes

  4.  Programming with Synchronization Objects

  5.   Programming With the Operating Environment

Process Creation--Forking Issues

The Fork-One Model

The Fork-All Model

Choosing the Right Fork

Process Creation--exec(2) and exit(2) Issues

Timers, Alarms, and Profiling

Per-LWP POSIX Timers

Per-Thread Alarms

Profiling

Nonlocal Goto--setjmp(3C) and longjmp(3C)

Resource Limits

LWPs and Scheduling Classes

Timeshare Scheduling

Realtime Scheduling

Fair Share Scheduling

Fixed Priority Scheduling

Extending Traditional Signals

Synchronous Signals

Asynchronous Signals

Continuation Semantics

Operations on Signals

Thread-Directed Signals

Completion Semantics

Signal Handlers and Async-Signal Safety

Interrupted Waits on Condition Variables

I/O Issues

I/O as a Remote Procedure Call

Tamed Asynchrony

Asynchronous I/O

Shared I/O and New I/O System Calls

Alternatives to getc(3C) and putc(3C)

  6.  Safe and Unsafe Interfaces

  7.  Compiling and Debugging

  8.  Programming With Solaris Threads

  9.  Programming Guidelines

  A.  Sample Application--Multithreaded grep

  B.  Solaris Threads Example: barrier.c

  Index