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This chapter discusses concepts and techniques related to DECthreads
operations and coding. Chapter 1
summarized the operation of just the pthread routines. For detailed
information on all the multithreading routines referred to in this
chapter and the last, see the detailed description of the routines
in the appropriate reference section.
- Note
- The current version of
DECthreads supports many similar API sets:
- POSIX 1003.1c-1995 interface
- TIS interface
- obsolete cma interface
- two variants of the obsolete POSIX 1003.4a, Draft 4
interface
The POSIX 1003.1c-1995 and tis interfaces are the primary DECthreads
interfaces. Most functions have close equivalents in all of these
API sets. Refer to the relevant appendices of this book for detailed
comparisons.