SRC Research Report 21

Evolving the UNIX System Interface to Support Multithreaded Programs

Paul R. McJones and Garret F. Swart

September 28, 1987 (reformatted for electronic distribution August 28, 1997)

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A slightly-edited version of Part I of this report appeared as ``Evolving the UNIX System Interface to Support Multithreaded Programs'' in Proceedings of the Winter 1989 USENIX Technical Conference, January 1989, pages 393-404.

This edition of August 28, 1997 is identical to the original except for layout differences resulting from switching from Scribe to LaTeX.