FSU Pthreads (POSIX Threads)

• funded by: U.S. Army AJPO, awarded to Ted Baker, Florida State University
• participation: Frank Mueller (Research Asssistant)

• FSU Pthreads release announcement (POSIX threads)
• The FSU Pthreads sources pthreads.tar.gz (U.S. site),
• The FSU Pthreads sources pthreads.zip (U.S. site),
• a brief interface documentation,
• a mailing list for new release announcements,
• an introductory paper,
• and a technical paper are available via anonymous ftp.
• The system has been extended to a real-time micro-kernel threads operating system (MiThOS) for embedded systems using SPARC VME boards.
• The MiThOS sources are publicly available, as well as
• further publications.
• There also is a Minix port of FSU Pthreads currently not being maintained by me.

Debugging Support for FSU Pthreads:

• A Thread Debug Interface (TDI) for Implementations of the POSIX Threads (Pthreads) Standard enhancing gdb with new commands
• SmartGdb 1.0 deb-package for FSU Pthreads under Debian GNU/Linux 2.0
• SmartGdb 1.0 rpm-package for FSU Pthreads under Red Hat 4.2 Linux
• SmartGDB home (U. Kansas) -- pages are out of date as of 8/17/98

Other WWW Pages on Threads:

Software and General Information:

• SCO Version of FSU Pthreads, sometimes slightly out of date, maintained by Arturo Montes
  • latest patch from 2007
  • another old version of FSU Pthreads for SCO and another one
• Minix Version of FSU Pthreads
• embedded FSU Pthreads (M86k) for uCLinux
• The comp.programming.threads FAQ: part 1 of 1 (original)
• Thread libraries
• Threads resources
• WWW Pointers on Threads (original)
• Linux Threads Home Page
• The LinuxThreads library (clone) for Linux 2.x
• Provenzano's Pthreads from MIT
• Sun Threads (defunct)
• Portable Threads
• Oakridge Threads (LPVM)
• PCthreads for Linux
• Threads for Linux & DOS
• PASC Interpretations Information (POSIX Standards)
• The SR Programming Language (U. Arizona)
• VSTH - POSIX and X/Open Threads Test Suite Overview
• X/Open: The Threads Extensions

Books:

• Multiprocessor System Architectures
• Index of /threaddocs/
• Getting Started With POSIX Threads
• ``Programming with POSIX(r) Threads'', by David Butenhof, ISBN 0-201-63392-2, butenhof@zko.dec.com includes sample code
• ``Multithreading Programming Techniques'', (covers multithreading using POSIX, UI, WIN32, C Threads and OS/2 threads)
  • Code and Chapters
• ``Threads Primer'' by Lewis, Berg, Nov '95 ~200 pages of text & examples, source from WWW, It is short and gives a deep introduction to MT for the not-yet threads programmer. It focuses on UI & Pthreads, but covers the concepts for OS/2 and NT.
• ``Programming with Threads'' Kleinman, Shah, Smaalders Feb '96 SunSoft ~600 pages, source from WWW It is significantly larger and has many detailed examples. It covers POSIX threads. It gives a light introduction, but is not a beginner's book.
• ``Effective Multithreading with OS/2'' Len Dorfman, Marc J Neuberger Nov, '95? 280 pages + source from diskette It covers the OS/2 API and contains many examples, but is very light on concepts.
• ``Programming with UNIX Threads'' Charles J Northrup March '96 It covers the UI threads library, focusing on the UNIXware implementation (~400 pages, many examples, source from FTP site). It gives a light introduction, but is not a beginner's book.
• ``Multithreaded Programming with Windows NT'' Thuan Q Pham, Pankaj K Garg Jan. '96 220 pages + source from diskette It focuses on the NT library, but gives some comparision with other libraries. It also covers several advanced concepts & techniques (DCE, monitors) which are independent of library. An excellent biblography!
• Pthreads Programming : A POSIX Standard for Better Multiprocessing by Bradford Nichols, Dick Buttlar, and Jacqueline Proulx Farrell Nov '96 O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. A decent book, well written and accurate. Covers a few topics better than the other books, a few topics more poorly. Best if you already have some familiarity with threads.
• ``A User's Guide to POSIX Threads'' Dave Butenhof Mid-97? A very different approach to explaining threads from the Primer, but very fine. A lot of good comments by someone who was on the committee(!)
• ``Multithreading Programming Techniques'', (covers multithreading using POSIX, UI, WIN32, C Threads and OS/2 threads)
  • Code & Chapters
• Programming Under Mach by Joseph Boykin, David Kirschen, Alan Langerman and Susan LoVerso ISBN 0-201-52739, 476 pages, 1993
• Go Solo 2 - The Book Prentice Hall 1998

Misc.:

• Bibliography on threads and multithreading
• AIX Threads
• DCE-RPC For Linux and PCThreads (Link)
• Nexus (MT-RTS)
• RT++ --- Tutorial and RM (C++ Threads)
• LINUX.ORG.UK (Linux SMP)
• Beowulf Project (Linux-SMP)
• Bibliography on threads and multithreading

Debugging:

• OpCom Home Page (Solaris Support)
• Solaris Tracing Tool
• SmartGDB (U. Kansas)
• ThreadMon
• Paxson, V., A Survey of Support for Implementing Debuggers. (Berkeley, Oct 1990)
• Mark Linton, The Evolution of Dbx
• Robert Pizzi, GNU Debugger Internal Architecture
• ldb -- A Retargetable Debugger
• ldb -- A Retargetable Debugger --- Abstract
• DDD - The Data Display Debugger

News Groups on Threads:

• comp.programming.threads
• comp.unix.solaris