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Are there any parallel programs that support pthreads?


Asked by Nico Schmidt on Dec 10, 2021 FAQ



An extremely common API used for developing parallel programs is the Posix Threads API (pthreads). The API contains many synchronization primitives that allow threaded code to be efficiently written. Unfortunately, Microsoft Windows does not support this interface as-is.
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The first parameter is used by pthread_create () to supply the program with information about the thread. The second parameter is used to set some attributes for the new thread. In our case we supplied a NULL pointer to tell pthread_create () to use the default values.
Just so, The Pthreads API library consists of more than 100 functions. See the pthreads (5) man page for a full list of the functions, grouped by their usage categories. Go to main content oracle home Multithreaded Programming Guide Exit Print View
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As many parallel applications often have interspersed sequential and parallel steps, where the exection of the sequential step must wait until all threads in the parallel step has finished execution; you often find that threads must sometimes WAIT on each other.
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Joinable threads may call pthread_join () to wait on another thread. The default value is joinable , you do NOT want to change this (unless you are going to provide some kind of barrier synchronization routine yourself....) Summary thread creation...