Nomenclature and Key Concepts

/usr/bin/time utility

_POSIX_C_SOURCE defined constant

_REENTRANT defined constant

include file

include file

include file

clone system call

condition variable

gdb utility

heavyweight process

kernel-level thread

lightweight process (LWP)

multithreaded

mutex

nanosleep real-time library function

nonpreemptive scheduling

opaque data type

parallelism

POSIX 1003.1 standard

POSIX 1003.1c standard

preemptive scheduling

pthread_attr_getschedparam library function

pthread_attr_init library function

pthread_attr_setschedparam library function

pthread_cleanup_pop library function

pthread_cleanup_pop_restore_np library function

pthread_cleanup_push library function

pthread_cleanup_push_defer_np library function

PTHREAD_COND_ INITIALIZER defined constant

pthread_cond_broadcast library function

pthread_cond_signal library function

pthread_cond_timedwait library function

pthread_cond_wait library function

pthread_create library function

PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED defined constant

PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE defined constant

PTHREAD_DESTRUCTOR_ITERATIONS defined constant

pthread_detach library function

PTHREAD_ERRORCHECK_MUTEX_INITIALIZER_NP

pthread_exit library function

PTHREAD_EXPLICIT_SCHED defined constant

pthread_getschedparam library function

pthread_getspecific library function

PTHREAD_INHERIT_SCHED defined constant

pthread_join library function

pthread_key_create library function

pthread_key_delete library function

pthread_kill library function

pthread_mutex_destroy library function

PTHREAD_MUTEX_ERRORCHECK defined constant

PTHREAD_MUTEX_FAST defined constant

pthread_mutex_init library function

PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER defined constant

pthread_mutex_lock library function

PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE defined constant

pthread_mutex_t data type

pthread_mutex_trylock library function

pthread_mutex_unlock library function

pthread_mutexattr_init library function

pthread_mutexattr_settype library function

pthread_once library function

PTHREAD_RECURSIVE_MUTEX_INITIALIZER_NP

pthread_rwlock_init library function

pthread_rwlock_rdlock library function

pthread_rwlock_t data type

pthread_rwlock_tryrdlock library function

pthread_rwlock_trywrlock library function

pthread_rwlock_unlock library function

pthread_rwlock_wrlock library function

PTHREAD_SCOPE_PROCESS defined constant

PTHREAD_SCOPE_SYSTEM defined constant

pthread_setschedparam library function

pthread_setspecific library function

pthread_sigmask library function

reentrant function

SCHED_FIFO defined constant

sched_get_priority_max library function

sched_get_priority_min library function

SCHED_OTHER defined constant

SCHED_RR defined constant

sched_yield system call

sem_getvalue library function

sem_init library function

sem_post library function

sem_trywait library function

sem_wait library function

setpriority system call

SIG_BLOCK defined constant

SIG_MASK defined constant

SIG_UNBLOCK defined constant

sigaction library function

sigaddset library function

sigdelset library function

sigemptyset library function

sigfillset library function

sigismember library function

sigwait library function

strace utility

thread

thread states

timespec_t data type

user -level thread