June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
540 pages
11h 43m
English
A thread is a single, sequential flow of control within a process. Within each thread, there is a single point of execution. On most UNIX operating systems, including AIX, a thread possesses the following characteristics:
It has its own independent flow of control within a process.
It shares resources with other threads within a process.
It can voluntary terminate before the process termination, or all the threads within a process terminate when the process terminates.
Most traditional programs execute as a process with a single thread. From a programmer’s point of view, a thread can be considered as a procedure that can concurrently and independently run from the main processing flow.
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