Solaris Multithreaded Programming

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How to compile your program

Fundamentals

Creating threads

Terminating threads

Waiting for a thread's completion

Global variables

Examples

Running two independent threads

Running many threads that share a global

Yielding the control of execution

Semaphores

Creating and initializing semaphores

Semaphore wait

Semaphore signal

Examples

Protecting a shared counter

Alternating execution

Bounded buffer

Mutex and condition variables

Mutual exclusion locks

An example

Simulating a monitor

Condition variables

Examples

Bounded buffer - revisited

Bridge crossing

Mailboxes (not a Solaris feature)

Mailboxes

Example

Alternating execution - revisited

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