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
Programs and Processes
- Introduction
- Library Functions
- System Calls
- Linking Object Code
- Managing Failures
- Executable File Format
- System Memory
- Process Memory
- The u Area
- Process Memory Addresses
- Creating a Process
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
Processing Environment
- Introduction
- Process ID
- Parent Process ID
- Process Group ID
- Permissions
- Real and Effective User and Group IDs
- File System Information
- File Information
- Process Resource Limits
- Signaling Processes
- Command-Line Values
- Environment Variables
- The /proc Filesystem
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
Using Processes
- Introduction
- The fork System Call Revisited
- exec s Minions
- Using fork and exec Together
- Ending a Process
- Waiting on Processes
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
Primitive Communications
- Introduction
- Lock Files
- Locking Files
- More About Signals
- Signal and Signal Management Calls
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
Pipes
Message Queues
- Introduction
- IPC System Calls: A Synopsis
- Creating a Message Queue
- Message Queue Control
- Message Queue Operations
- A ClientServer Message Queue Example
- Message Queue Class
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
Semaphores
- Introduction
- Creating and Accessing Semaphore Sets
- Semaphore Control
- Semaphore Operations
- Semaphore Class
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
Shared Memory
- Introduction
- Creating a Shared Memory Segment
- Shared Memory Control
- Shared Memory Operations
- Using a File as Shared Memory
- Shared Memory Class
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
Remote Procedure Calls
- Introduction
- Executing Remote Commands at a System Level
- Executing Remote Commands in a Program
- Transforming a Local Function Call into a Remote Procedure
- Debugging RPC Applications
- Using RPCGEN to Generate Templates and a MAKEFILE
- Encoding and Decoding Arbitrary Data Types
- Using Broadcasting to Search for an RPC Service
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
Sockets
- Introduction
- Communication Basics
- IPC Using Socketpair
- Sockets: The Connection-Oriented Paradigm
- Sockets: The Connectionless Paradigm
- Multiplexing I/O with select
- Peeking at Data
- Out of Band Messages
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
Threads
- Introduction
- Creating a Thread
- Exiting a Thread
- Basic Thread Management
- Thread Attributes
- Scheduling Threads
- Using Signals in Threads
- Thread Synchronization
- Thread-Specific Data
- Debugging Multithreaded Programs
- Summary
- Nomenclature and Key Concepts
Appendix A. Using Linux Manual Pages
Appendix B. UNIX Error Messages
Appendix C. RPC Syntax Diagrams
Appendix D. Profiling Programs
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