Advanced Programming in the UNIX® Environment: Second Edition

Chapter 12. Thread Control

Introduction

In Chapter 11, we learned the basics about threads and thread synchronization. In this chapter, we will learn the details of controlling thread behavior. We will look at thread attributes and synchronization primitive attributes, which we ignored in the previous chapter in favor of the default behaviors.

We will follow this with a look at how threads can keep data private from other threads in the same process. Then we will wrap up the chapter with a look at how some process-based system calls interact with threads.

Thread Limits

We discussed the sysconf function in Section 2.5.4. The Single UNIX Specification defines several limits associated with the operation of threads, which we didn’t show in Figure 2.10 ...