From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 23 10:15:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA19175 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 10:15:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA19157 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 10:14:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id KAA17902; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 10:14:54 -0700 (PDT) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Path: not-for-mail From: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Newsgroups: polstra.freebsd.hackers Subject: Re: Help! I need info on pthreads. Date: 23 Apr 1996 10:14:54 -0700 Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 27 Distribution: local Message-ID: <4lj36e$hfb@austin.polstra.com> References: <199604230013.KAA18978@melb.werple.net.au> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199604230013.KAA18978@melb.werple.net.au>, John Birrell wrote: > > I haven't looked for books on how to use pthreads. I'm from an OSF/1 > environment where we used DEC's poor examples as a start. Their bookreader > docs aren't too bad at describing the functions, but they are not good > at describing how to design a threaded application. There's a really superb article on exactly that at: http://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/SRC/research-reports/abstracts/src-rr-035.html It's by Andrew D. Birrell. (Who's he, John, your long lost brother? :-) Incidentally, it is a technical report from DEC's Systems Research Center. They have many excellent TRs on interesting topics. You can find an index of them at: http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/publications/src-rr.html Almost all of them are available in Postscript form. They'll also mail you paper copies and/or associated videos, for free. It's a great service! -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth