In the Linux operating system, LinuxThreads was a partial implementation of POSIX Threads introduced in 1996. The main developer of LinuxThreads was Xavier...
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caller. The LinuxThreads project used this system call to provide kernel-level threads (most of the previous thread implementations in Linux worked entirely...
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approach from the start, while on Linux the GNU C Library implements this approach (via the NPTL or older LinuxThreads). This approach is also used by Solaris...
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the original author of LinuxThreads, the most widely used threading package for Linux versions prior to 2.6[broken anchor]. Linux 2.6[broken anchor] introduced...
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the long deprecated (but kept for compatibility) LinuxThreads, replaced by the Native POSIX Thread Library. Fedora Core 6 was released on October 24...
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The Linux kernel is a free and open source: 4 Unix-like kernel that is used in many computer systems worldwide. The kernel was created by Linus Torvalds...
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Hyper-threading (officially called Hyper-Threading Technology or HT Technology and abbreviated as HTT or HT) is Intel's proprietary simultaneous multithreading...
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running the Linux kernel version 2.2 (released in 1999) have shown that: Green threads significantly outperform Linux native threads on thread activation...
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Light-weight process (redirect from Lightweight thread)
process" typically refers to kernel threads and the term "threads" can refer to user threads. On Linux, user threads are implemented by allowing certain...
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Pthreads (redirect from POSIX thread)
Cilk/Cilk Plus Threading Building Blocks (TBB) Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL) DCEThreads clone (Linux system call) Spurious wakeup Thread-local storage...
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UClibc (category Embedded Linux)
Retrieved 2007-06-19. pthreads support (derived from glibc 2.1.3's linuxthreads library) [...] Merged in the random number support (rand, srand, etc)...
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kernel version above 2.2.x supported it easily in the thread mode (i.e., non-SKAS3). As of Linux 2.6.0, it is integrated into the main kernel source tree...
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Stormix (category Linux companies)
to continue the business at the beginning of 2001. Remembering Stormix Storm Linux thread on debian-devel public mailing list The end of Storm Linux...
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inversion ThreadSafe Kerrisk, Michael (2010). The Linux Programing Interface. No Starch Press. p. 699, "Chapter 31: THREADS: THREAD SAFETY AND PER-THREAD STORAGE"{{cite...
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Context switch (redirect from Thread switching latency)
shared (threads that belong to the same process share many resources compared to unrelated non-cooperating processes). For example, in the Linux kernel...
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RTLinux (redirect from Real time Linux)
while other interrupts are forwarded to Linux, which runs at a lower priority than real-time threads. Linux drivers handled almost all I/O. First-In-First-Out...
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Oracle Linux (abbreviated OL, formerly known as Oracle Enterprise Linux or OEL) is a Linux distribution packaged and freely distributed by Oracle, available...
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Operating system (section Linux)
5%, and Linux at 1%. Android, iOS, and iPadOS are mobile operating systems, while Windows, macOS, and Linux are desktop operating systems. Linux distributions...
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Scheduling (computing) (redirect from Linux Process Scheduler)
128–159 for real-time user threads, 160–223 for time-shared user threads, and 224–255 for idle user threads. Also, like Linux, it uses the active queue...
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Modern and efficient C++ Thread Pool Library". GitHub. 2019-09-24. Shved, Paul (2010-01-07). "Easy parallelization with Bash in Linux". coldattic.info. Retrieved...
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PowerLinux is the combination of a Linux-based operating system (OS) running on PowerPC- or Power ISA-based computers from IBM. It is often used in reference...
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Linux began in 1991 as a personal project by Finnish student Linus Torvalds to create a new free operating system kernel. The resulting Linux kernel has...
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Version 9 supported the Native POSIX Thread Library, which was ported to the 2.4 series kernels by Red Hat. Red Hat Linux lacked many features due to possible...
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Spurious wakeup (category Threads (computing))
The Linux p-thread implementation of condition variables guarantees that it will not do that. Because spurious wakeup can happen, when a thread wakes...
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thread-local variables: Solaris Studio C/C++, IBM XL C/C++, GNU C, llvm-gcc, Clang, and Intel C++ Compiler (Linux systems) use the syntax: __thread int...
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Errno.h (redirect from Error codes in Linux)
are almost always used today to allow for multi-threading, so that each thread will see its own thread-local error number. The header file also defines...
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available for Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems. Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler is available for Windows and Linux and supports compiling C...
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Namespaces are a feature of the Linux kernel that partition kernel resources such that one set of processes sees one set of resources, while another set...
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CPython (section Enterprise Linux)
where threads are mostly waiting on external processes to complete. This can happen when multiple threads are servicing separate clients. One thread may...
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OS, Linux, ThreadX Renders XPS files for print or display; used in desktop printers, digital production presses, prepress and software Okular Linux, FreeBSD...
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