Controlling and scheduling Pthread

[Prashun Gupta]

Hi All,
I am working on a porting project from Hp10.2 to HP11, which has a task library. Hp has removed task library in the HPUX11. The solution from Hp which has been said is use of pthread library. Task library use to provide me some options which I am finding difficult to replicate
I need some resourses for finding answers for the following questions.
1. Can I create any number of threads, is there any resource crunch over it.

2. Is there any mechanism, where I can make a list of pthread, and take control of all the threads from a single, point. These pthread I want to replicate as task, hence i need to mimic functions like sleep, result,alert, contunue keeping control with the main program.

3. If such global resource is possible, then there is a need of scheduling technique for pthreads involved in the global resource.

Moreover Can anyone suggest goof pdf to learn pthreads with some examples in them.
Thanks
Prashun

[Emil Velez_2 · Accepted solution]

I periodically teach a course on thread programming for HP customers using the Pthreads book (HP Press) as a basis of the course. The book and the examples are very good and cookbook with models for large applications. It covers all of the questions you are asking in good detail with sample programs.

Emil Velez

[Prashun Gupta]

Thanks..
Can you send me your email address and name of the book with ISBN number
Prashun

[John Poff]

Hi Prashun,

This might be the book he is talking about:

thread time: the multithreaded programming guide

Scott J. Norton
Mark D. DiPasquale

Published November, 1996 by Prentice Hall PTR

Copyright 1997
Paper bound w/CD-ROM, 560 pp.

ISBN 0-13-190067-6

You can find it at this URL:

http://www.hp.com/hpbooks/prentice/ptr_0131900676.html


JP