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| Introduction | |
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| Concepts | |
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| Background: Traditional Operating Systems | |
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| What Is a Thread? Kernel Interaction | |
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| The Value of Using Threads | |
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| What Kind of Programs to Thread? What About Shared Memory? Threads Standards | |
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| Performance | |
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| Foundations | |
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| Implementation vs. Specification | |
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| Thread Libraries | |
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| The Process Structure | |
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| Lightweight Processes | |
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| Solaris Multithreaded Model | |
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| System Calls | |
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| Signals | |
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| Lifecycle | |
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| Thread Lifecycle | |
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| Scheduling | |
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| Different Models of Kernel Scheduling | |
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| Thread Scheduling | |
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| Context Switching | |
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| When Should You Care About Scheduling? | |
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| Synchronization | |
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| Synchronization Issues | |
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| Synchronization Variables | |
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| A Stoppable Producer/Consumer Example | |
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| Complexities | |
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| Complex Locking Primitives | |
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| Other Synchronization Variables | |
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| Message Queues | |
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| Cross-Process Synchronization Variables | |
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| Initialization and Destruction | |
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| Synchronization Problems | |
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| TSD | |
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| Thread-Specific Data | |
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| Global Variables, Constants, and Cheating | |
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| Cancellation | |
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| What Cancellation Is | |
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| A Cancellation Example | |
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| Using Cancellation | |
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| Cancellation Safety | |
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| Simple Polling | |
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| Signals | |
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| Signals in UNIX | |
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| The Solaris Implementation of Signal Handling | |
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| Don't Use Signal Handlers! | |
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| Details | |
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| Attribute Objects | |
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| POSIX Thread Ids | |
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| Win32 Thread IDs and Thread Handles | |
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| Initializing Your Data: pthread_once() | |
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| POSIX Namespace Restrictions | |
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| Return Values and Error Reporting | |
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| Constants Comments | |
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| Pthread Futures | |
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| Pthread Extensions | |
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| Comparing the OS/2, Win32, and POSIX Libraries | |
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| Libraries | |
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| The Threads Library | |
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| Multithreaded Kernels | |
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| Are Libraries Safe? Stub Functions in libc | |
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| New Semantics for System Calls | |
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| Are Libraries Safe? Threads Debugger Interface | |
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| Mixing Solaris Pthreads and UI Threads | |
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| Comparisons of Different Implementations | |
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| Design | |
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| Making Libraries Safe and Hot | |
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| Manipulating Lists | |
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| Program Design | |
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| Languages | |
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| C | |
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| C++ | |
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| Java | |
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| Fortran | |
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| Ada | |
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| Pascal | |
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| Smalltalk | |
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| Lisp | |
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| Eiffel | |
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| Commercial Products | |
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| Public Pthreads Implementations | |
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| Tools | |
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| Static Lock Analyzer | |
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| Using a Thread-Aware, Graphical Debugger | |
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| Debug Mutexes | |
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| Protocol | |
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| TNFview | |
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| Performance | |
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| Optimization: Objectives and Objections | |
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| CPU Time, I/O Time, Contention, Etc | |
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| Limits on Speedup | |
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| Benchmarks and Repeatable Testing | |
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| The Lessons of NFS | |
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| Hardware | |
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| Types of Multiprocessors | |
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| Bus Architectures | |
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| Memory Systems | |
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| Examples | |
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| Threads and Windows | |
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| Socket Server (Master/Slave Version) | |
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| Socket Server (Producer/Consumer Version) | |
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| Other Programs on the Web | |
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| Internet | |
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| Threads Newsgroup | |
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| Code Examples | |
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| Vendor's Threads Pages | |
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| Threads Research | |
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| The SPILT Package for UI/POSIX Compatibility | |
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| Freeware Tools | |
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| Other Pointers | |
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| The Authors on the Net | |
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| Books | |
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| Threads Books | |
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| Related Books | |
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| Timings | |
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| Mistakes | |
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| APIs | |
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| Function Descriptions | |
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| Pthread Functions | |
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| Pthread Attributes Objects | |
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| POSIX Realtime Scheduling | |
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| Mutexes | |
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| Mutex Attributes Objects | |
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| Condition Variables | |
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| Condition Variable Attributes Objects | |
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| Cancellation Functions | |
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| Thread-Specific Data Functions | |
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| Semaphores | |
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| Signal Functions | |
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| Stdio | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |