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- From: sjmccaug@prairienet.org (Scott J. McCaughrin)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Multithreading in C++?
- Date: 20 Jan 1996 22:20:54 GMT
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- In a previous article, thp@cs.ucr.edu (Tom Payne) says:
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- >Manfred_Lange (Manfred_Lange@bbn.hp.com) wrote:
- >: jcwang@hntp2.hinet.net (John C. Wang) wrote:
- >: >
- >: >Does anyone know if there is a standard C interface for multithread
- >: >programming? Under MS Visual C++ there are thread functions for the NT, but I
- >: >am pretty sure that's not a standard function call. What do they use in UNIX?
- >: >Does the POSIX standards specify this?
- >: >
- >: >Please reply to my email if possible.
- >: >
- >: >jcwang@csie.ntu.edu.tw
- >: >
- >:
- >: As far as I know, there are no functions in the standard libraries that deal
- >: with threads. This is typically left to the underlying operating system.
- >
- What about spawn() for child processes, and exec()?
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- sjm
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