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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Light-weight process (redirect from Lightweight thread)
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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P.I.P.S. (redirect from P.I.P.S. Is POSIX on Symbian OS)
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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C standard library (section POSIX standard library)
(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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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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"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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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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