On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2002, Isaac Aaron wrote about "RE: pthreads question": > > The thing is, I Read the F Manual (over and over, even considered trying > > mit-pthreads instead), did didn't think that I WANT to detach the thread? > > (Why detach? I kind of like it... Better keep it). > > That's where books are better than manuals - given their length, they can > also give examples and explain the ideas behind why certain things were > done the way they were done, and what they are good for. >
I believe, but am not sure, that there are good tutorials and lectures online about it too. STFW. > The book I'd recommend is David R. Butenhof's "Programming with Posix Threads" > (see e.g., http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201633922/thealmostcomplet ) > If I remember correctly, Butenhof was one of the people working on the > Posix threads standard, and talks a lot about the motivations of how and why > to do things (it talks only on C, of course - if you're looking for OOP > abstractions of threads look elsewhere; I just wrote my own). You can find some useful abstractions for them here: http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/abstraction/ (under System-Services Abstractions) If there's anything missing let me know. And Nadav - you should know better than to invent your own wheel. ;-) > This is the book I learned Posix threads from. > I learned POSIX threads from online and hard-disk resources, and from my "Structure of OS" course. The pthreads API is not very hard or complex, but of course preventing dead-locks, starvation and other multi-tasking mishaps is something that requires a lot of though. Regards, Shlomi Fish > > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Thursday, Mar 14 2002, 2 Nisan 5762 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- > Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Why aren't fishmongers generous? Their > http://nadav.harel.org.il |business makes them selfish. > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ Home E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Let's suppose you have a table with 2^n cups..." "Wait a second - is n a natural number?" ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
