Talk:COMP 3000 Essay 1 2010 Question 8

Group 8

GROUP NAMES:

Niravkumar Patel (Npatel1)

Trevor Malone (Tmalone)

Mark Walts (Rift)

John Vanden Heuvel (jvheuvel)

Jeff Francom (Afranco2)

Discussion

POSIX Threads and the Linux Kernel --Gautam 23:52, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Not from your group. However I found a webpage which you might find useful. The New Implementation of Threads for Linux --Gautam 22:56, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Not extremely helpful but: A short history of unix Rift 18:30, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/posix/POSIX-A.FM5.pdf IEEE POSIX Testing Policy General Information The POSIX family of standards, Stephen R. Walli -afranco2

I'm not sure how we are planning on structuring this essay, but I will just write a bit on the history of Posix part for now. Does somebody want to handle writing an intro? - afranco2

Hey guys, sorry for the late reply... i just wanted everyone to finish their assignment portion. we would have our own set of explanation for question 8.

AFRANCO2; Here is a suggestion.

1st paragraph; should consist defining UNIX and POSIX/Threads

2nd paragrah; consisting the history behind POSIX and why UNIX was so late to implement the support of multithreaded processes.

3rd paragraph; should conclude it all.

I agree, but I don't think that we should limit it to specifically 'paragraphs' but rather sections. -afranco2

Here is a site that would take care of paragraph 1: https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/pthreads/

GAUTHAM provided us with very useful pdf. that talks about the history of POSIX.

-Npatel1

This may be a stupid question, buy does anybody know what we have to do for citation? Are we using footnotes like a regular wiki? Or is there another conformation we need to follow? -afranco2

                --footnotes are probably easiest, John v.

I'll take care of the first paragraph if you guys are comfortable with the structure of the essay (post it by the end of today). since we already have AFRANCO2 who did the history portion of the essay.

I made a new tab for "ESSAY" final copy*

-Npatel1

I'm not sure about the citations; just keep the links you used to gather the information, we'll ask him on Tuesday. (i was just wondering, is this is the kind of structure you were looking for? or should we change the structure?)

-Npatel1

So what all do we need left? Sorry I am out of town trying to keep up as much as possible. Ive posted my research content on the primary page. And I've noticed we are getting pretty organized with our essay format. Just as an update process what has been completed and what is left to do? Because i don't wanna type up a bunch of information we may not need anymore. So Whatever else we need I can type up with all our info and then we can out the together the essay in the next couple days.

- Tmalone

And I think the structure is a good idea. We have enough information to turn it all into a good essay. If you have another suggestion on the structure though by all means tell us what you think.

- Tmalone

sounds good! I'm sorry i was unable to post the Intro today... I'll make sure to have it by tomorrow!

Tmalone, i think we have good portion for History; i will get us started with a good intro then link in the history as our second paragraph which afranco2 has provided. then we'll talk about why UNIX was soo late; finally conclude it all with a last paragraph.

-Npatel1

Alright, I'll get started on a possible conclusion format. Then we can post it all and edit and add/delete whatever we want. So then hopefully by Tuesdays class we will have a good make-up of the essay we want.

- Tmalone

I read the current essay format posted. It was really well done good job guys. I read over it and corrected some minor grammar errors. So by sometime tomorrow I'll have a possible conclusion paragraph posted. If anyone else wants to type anything up for a conclusion they can feel free to as well! The more the better.

- Tmalone

It's looking good. Sorry if i'm a bit late to the party. I threw a paragraph down in the answer part. I know it doesn't really fit well.. but it really nees to get worked in.. -Rift

little late here too, got sidetracked with 3004 and 3008. I do have a concern in that 3 paragraphs really isn't an essay, he seemed to want more than that JOhn v.

anyone remember what was cited where in the essay? we're still missing references -- John

yeah, Tmalone decided that he was going to do the citation suitable to the essay. Feel free to help; upon finishing, we'll post it on the "page". Nothing fancy, Prof. Anil mentioned that he just wanted the basic format. John, the information that was cited is in discussion and also in collaboration. -Npatel1

Sources

Everyone please post any extra links here; we'll organize it after everyone posts their links.

posted the ones that are provided on our discussion.

-Npatel1

http://www.unix.org/whitepapers/shdiffs.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX_Threads

http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/

https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/pthreads/

http://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2002/ols2002-pages-330-337.pdf

http://www.drdobbs.com/open-source/184406204;jsessionid=GKSVKT3EOMUBDQE1GHRSKHWATMY32JVN

http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/posix/POSIX-A.FM5.pdf

http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/220000/210315/p11-walli.pdf?key1=210315&key2=6626986821&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=108396689&CFTOKEN=35895091

Journal article "Achieving Efficiency and Portability in Systems Software: A Case Study on POSIX-Compliant Multithreaded Programs" http://dx.doi.org.proxy.library.carleton.ca/10.1109/TSE.2005.98