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| Book: | PThreads Programming | |
| Subject: | Pthreads Programming Review | |
| Date: | 2000-10-25 16:32:07 | |
| From: | Sanjeev Patel | |
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Rating:
 
The book was OK when I first read it. However, I think that it lacks necessary detail about thread synchronization. The mutex/condition variable example using inc_counter and watch_count wouldn't work. Frankly, I've found that there are a lot of problems one will run into if they try to develop an app after having read this book. No attempt is made to discuss what happens when a thread waiting on a condition variable doesn't get to run even though it has been signalled (using pthread_cond_signal). The gloss over of pipelining was particularly annoying to me since I really wanted to implement a working pipeline using pthreads, but haven't been able to due to the problem mentioned above. I could be missing something, but the point of the book is to ensure (at least on some level) that I'm not... |
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