5.2 POSIX Multiprocessing

This section scratches the surface of the POSIX environment, including pthreads [Ope97], as this environment is readily available and widely implemented. Section [*] provides a glimpse of the POSIX fork() and related primitives, Section [*] touches on thread creation and destruction, Section [*] gives a brief overview of POSIX locking, and, finally, Section [*] presents the analogous operations within the Linux kernel.



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Paul E. McKenney 2011-12-16