Multithreading Programming Techniques (J. Ranade Workstation Series)

Chapters written from a programmer's perspective cover multithreaded programming techniques for IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, SCO UnixWare, HP/UX, Digital UNIX, Windows NT, Windows 95, IBM OS/2, NEXTSTEP, and other platforms that implement POSIX and DCE threads. They describe how to use threads to develop scalable applications and to take advantage of the parallelism of symmetrical multiprocessing (SMP) machines, as well as how to create portable software, convert applications, and use inter-thread synchronization primitives. The disk provides examples in C and source code for Mthreads. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.