• Pthreads (redirect from Posix threads)
    In computing, POSIX Threads, commonly known as pthreads, is an execution model that exists independently from a programming language, as well as a parallel...
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  • The Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL) is an implementation of the POSIX Threads specification for the Linux operating system. Before the 2.6 version...
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    provides API emulation for POSIX threads for backward compatibility. GNU Pth uses an N:1 mapping to kernel-space threads, i.e., the scheduling is done...
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  • Locking Interface POSIX.1c: Threads extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995) Thread Creation, Control, and Cleanup Thread Scheduling Thread Synchronization Signal...
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    user threads (as opposed to kernel threads) can be problematic. If a user thread or a fiber performs a system call that blocks, the other user threads and...
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  • by Google. The OpenThread network simulator, a part of the OpenThread implementation, simulates Thread networks using OpenThread POSIX instances. The simulator...
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  • Signal (IPC) (redirect from SIGINT (POSIX))
    Unix-like, and other POSIX-compliant operating systems. A signal is an asynchronous notification sent to a process or to a specific thread within the same...
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  • operating system, LinuxThreads was a partial implementation of POSIX Threads introduced in 1996. The main developer of LinuxThreads was Xavier Leroy. It...
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  • The C POSIX library is a specification of a C standard library for POSIX systems. It was developed at the same time as the ANSI C standard. Some effort...
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  • Spurious wakeup (category C POSIX library)
    multiprocessor systems. When several threads are waiting on a single condition variable, the system may decide to wake all threads up when it's signaled. The system...
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    NT POSIX subsystem also did not provide any of the POSIX extensions that postdated the creation of Windows NT 3.1, such as those for POSIX Threads or...
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    between multiple threads of execution, two threads of execution may attempt to remove two different nodes simultaneously, one thread of execution changing...
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  • HPX IPP OpenMP OpenThreads Parallel Patterns Library POCO C++ Libraries Threading POSIX Threads Qt QThread Rogue Wave SourcePro Threads Module Stapl TBB...
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    POSIX functions. Distributed memory Distributed shared memory Shared graphics memory Heterogeneous System Architecture Global variable Nano-threads Execute...
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  • LWP layer between kernel threads and user threads. This means that user threads are implemented directly on top of kernel threads. In those contexts, the...
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  • were no trademark or copyright infringements. POSIX POSIX Threads C POSIX library Symbian introduces POSIX libraries on Symbian OS Archived 18 November...
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  • when compared to traditional lower-level parallel programming models (Threads, MPI). The following example is based on the Java Skandium library for...
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  • (complex.h, stdatomic.h, and threads.h) are conditional features that implementations are not required to support. The POSIX standard added several nonstandard...
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  • number of threads have reached the barrier before it is lifted. The following C code, which implemented thread barrier by using POSIX Threads will demonstrate...
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  • cbrt, \ float: cbrtf)(x) Multi-threading support (_Thread_local storage-class specifier, <threads.h> header including thread creation/management functions...
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  • Coroutine (section Threads)
    all that is needed, using a thread can be overkill. One important difference between threads and coroutines is that threads are typically preemptively...
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  • Fork (system call) (category C POSIX library)
    of itself. It is an interface which is required for compliance with the POSIX and Single UNIX Specification standards. It is usually implemented as a...
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  • one thread to acquire the lock in "read-mode with intent to upgrade to write" while there are no threads in write mode and possibly non-zero threads in...
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  • Message queue (section POSIX)
    implement an asynchronous communication pattern between two or more processes/threads whereby the sending and receiving party do not need to interact with the...
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  • RTLinux (section Threads)
    Interface (POSIX) POSIX threads application programming interface (API) and then permitted creation of threads in user mode with real-time threads running...
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  • "target") by specifying a path thereto. Symbolic links are supported by POSIX and by most Unix-like operating systems, such as FreeBSD, Linux, and macOS...
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  • Errno.h (category POSIX error codes)
    many Unix-like systems is not thread-safe, a thread-safe version strerror_r is used, but conflicting definitions from POSIX and GNU makes it even less portable...
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    Node.js (section Threading)
    heavyweight OS processes or threads handled each connection. Node.js uses an event loop for concurrent I/O, instead of processes or threads. In contrast to other...
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  • example, the POSIX standard for threads defines an application programming interface based on a number of opaque types that represent threads or synchronization...
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  • Protothread (category Threads (computing))
    (processors). eigenclass.org performed a comparison of protothreads against POSIX threads, and found a 400x improvement in speed [1] Retrieved from Archive.org...
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