Shared Memory Application Programming

Chapter 3

Creating and Running Threads

Abstract

This chapter describes the basic programming interfaces for creating, running, and terminating threads in a process. The thread management programming interfaces proposed by the native libraries—Pthreads and Windows—as well as the C++11 thread library are first discussed, observing how the same universal concepts and features are implemented in somewhat similar ways. Next, a high-level, portable interface for simple thread management is introduced. This utility, included in the vath library, encapsulates the low-level interfaces previously described. Finally, a first look is given at the way threads are managed in OpenMP. All these issues are illustrated with several examples.

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