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» An Introduction to POSIX Threads - This article demystifies the POSIX thread interface, providing practical examples of threaded code for consideration.
» GNU Pth - Portable Threads: portable POSIX/ANSI-C library for Unix gives non-preemptive priority-based scheduling for multithreading in programs. All threads run in same address space, each has its own program counter, run time stack, signal mask, errno variable; c
» Getting Started with POSIX Threads - Introduction to POSIX threads with sample source available for download.
» Introduction to Programming Threads - Introduces what threads are, why they are useful and how to program with them using the POSIX 1003.1c thread standard and API bindings for C.
» LinuxThreads FAQ - Frequently asked questions about the kernel-level multi-threading library for Linux.
» Multithreaded Programming with Pthreads - The complimentary site for the book with the same title.
» Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL) 0.1 Released - Initial performance: 8x Linux Threads, 4x NGPT. [Linux Weekly News]
» Native POSIX Thread Library: NPTL - White paper describes actual implementation of thread library for which requirements are spelled out in a prior document. Many things are different. [Red Hat, PDF]
» Next Generation POSIX Threading: NGPT - Goals: solve problems of pthreads library on Linux; add M:N threading, raise POSIX compliance and speed in threaded programs, more so under SMP, give threading services more like commercial Unix. Derived from GNU Pth. [Open Source, LGPL]
» POSIX Synchronous Wrappers - A set of C++ wrappers for posix synchronous entities such as pthread, mutexes and condition.
» POSIX Threads Explained, Part 1 - How to use POSIX threads to increase the responsiveness and performance of your code.
» POSIX Threads Explained, Part 2 - How to protect the integrity of shared data structures in threaded code by using mutexes.
» POSIX Threads Explained, Part 3 - How to use condition variables.
» POSIX Threads Tutorial - How to write parallel applications using POSIX threads. By Mark Hays.
» Threads - The Single UNIX Specification (Version 2) standard for threads. Includes manual pages of all POSIX thread functions.