Chapter 9
Posix threads
Abstract
Chapter 9 discusses the issues surrounding multithreaded programming using Posix threads. We begin with a description of the fork() function, which creates a new Linux process. fork() is a “heavyweight” mechanism that conceptually creates a complete copy of the calling process.
Keywords
Posix; threads; mutex; fork; mutual exclusion; condition variable; device driver
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