COMP 3000 Essay 1 2010 Question 8: Difference between revisions
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Posix threads began in an era when multithreading started becoming a popular idea. UNIX traditionally had a system running only a single thread under a process. These processes could not share memory and interacted using 'pipes'. Once developers started wanting to be able to run multiple threads under one process, IEEE began to form together the POSIX standards. In 1988 POSIX.1 was ratified and was accepted as the international standard in 1990. From there the POSIX standards grew to more than 20 individual standards, encapsulating a large area of different groups.-afranco2 | |||
Hey guys, i'm just gunna get this started by posting a few links for everyone to get going. This will help explain a general idea of what they are and the history of them. Please add some more links or anything else you think would be helpful! | Hey guys, i'm just gunna get this started by posting a few links for everyone to get going. This will help explain a general idea of what they are and the history of them. Please add some more links or anything else you think would be helpful! | ||
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I found this, might not help, but it might:--[[User:Rannath|Rannath]] 02:09, 6 October 2010 (UTC) | I found this, might not help, but it might:--[[User:Rannath|Rannath]] 02:09, 6 October 2010 (UTC) | ||
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/os-research/part1/section-10.html | http://www.faqs.org/faqs/os-research/part1/section-10.html | ||
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Question
What is the history of POSIX Threads (pthreads)? Consider - does this history explain why UNIX was so late to implement support for multithreaded processes?
Answer
Posix threads began in an era when multithreading started becoming a popular idea. UNIX traditionally had a system running only a single thread under a process. These processes could not share memory and interacted using 'pipes'. Once developers started wanting to be able to run multiple threads under one process, IEEE began to form together the POSIX standards. In 1988 POSIX.1 was ratified and was accepted as the international standard in 1990. From there the POSIX standards grew to more than 20 individual standards, encapsulating a large area of different groups.-afranco2
Hey guys, i'm just gunna get this started by posting a few links for everyone to get going. This will help explain a general idea of what they are and the history of them. Please add some more links or anything else you think would be helpful!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX_Threads https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/pthreads/ http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/
I found this, might not help, but it might:--Rannath 02:09, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/os-research/part1/section-10.html
Might be of some use as well --Lmundt 14:48, 7 October 2010 (UTC) https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/pthreads/