POSIX: Difference between revisions

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POSIX Threads Programming, excellent introduction to pthreads, by Blaise Barney, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
POSIX thread (pthread) libraries
POSIX Threads (wikipedia)

For portability, always create joinable or detachable threads by setting explicitly the thread attribute (using pthread_attr_getdetachstate). This provides portability as not all implementations may create threads as joinable by default.

Using thread-specific data area foreseen by POSIX, which requires first creating a key that is later used to set or get thread-specific data attached to that key (see Advanced Linux Programming - Ch 4)
Using keyword __thread, see http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/tls.pdf (not available in all compiler, not standard C99 [1]).

See Debugging page.

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 * For portability, always create ''joinable'' or ''detachable'' threads by setting explicitly the thread attribute (using <code>pthread_attr_getdetachstate</code>). This provides portability as not all implementations may create threads as joinable by default.
+=== Thread-Local Data ===
+* Using ''thread-specific data'' area foreseen by POSIX, which requires first creating a key that is later used to set or get thread-specific data attached to that key (see [http://www.advancedlinuxprogramming.com/alp-folder/alp-ch04-threads.pdf Advanced Linux Programming - Ch 4])
+* Using keyword '''__thread''', see [http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/tls.pdf http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/tls.pdf] (not available in all compiler, not standard C99 [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6869391/using-thread-in-c99]).
 === Debugging ===