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pthreads defines a set of C programming language types, functions and constants. It is implemented with a pthread.h header and a thread library. There are around 100 threads procedures, all prefixed pthread_ and they can be categorized into five groups: Thread management – creating, joining threads etc. Mutexes; Condition variables
In the Solaris implementation of condition variables, a spurious wakeup may occur without the condition being assigned if the process is signaled; the wait system call aborts and returns EINTR. [2] The Linux p-thread implementation of condition variables guarantees that it will not do that.
GNU Pth uses an N:1 mapping to kernel-space threads, i.e., the scheduling is done completely by the GNU Pth library and the kernel itself is not aware of the N threads in user-space. Because of this there is no possibility to utilize SMP as kernel dispatching would be necessary.
Often also called a replicated workers or worker-crew model, [1] a thread pool maintains multiple threads waiting for tasks to be allocated for concurrent execution by the supervising program. By maintaining a pool of threads, the model increases performance and avoids latency in execution due to frequent creation and destruction of threads for ...
wait - when executed, causes the suspension of the executing process until the state of the event is set to true. If the state is already set to true before wait was called, wait has no effect. [clarification needed] set - sets the event's state to true, release all waiting processes. clear - sets the event's state to false.
In the Pthreads API, memory local to a thread is designated with the term Thread-specific data. The functions pthread_key_create and pthread_key_delete are used respectively to create and delete a key for thread-specific data. The type of the key is explicitly left opaque and is referred to as pthread_key_t. This key can be seen by all threads.
Multiple processes or threads operate on the integer entirely in userspace (using atomic operations to avoid interfering with one another), and only resort to relatively expensive [citation needed] system calls to request operations on the wait queue (for example to wake up waiting processes, or to put the current process on the wait queue). A ...
The event loop almost always operates asynchronously with the message originator. When the event loop forms the central control flow construct of a program, as it often does, it may be termed the main loop or main event loop. This title is appropriate, because such an event loop is at the highest level of control within the program.