Programming with POSIX threads

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• senderista · Feb 10, 2021 · Recommends

  Ditto, via David Butenhof's excellent book _Programming with Posix Threads_. I didn't know what a mutex or condition variable was before I read that book.

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• rramadass · Nov 29, 2023 · Recommends

  …with a main focus on shared-memory architectures. Along with the above you also need more detailed language/library specific implementation books; a) C++ Concurrency in Action by Anthony Williams. b) Programming with POSIX Threads by David Butenhof. c) UNIX Systems Programming: Communication, Concurrency and Threads by Kay Robbins and Steve Robbins.

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• adolgert · Nov 27, 2010 · Recommends

  …equation in BASIC and said I should take a look. Stroustrup's _The C++ Programming Language_, twice in a row, because I didn't want to be left out for not having taken Computer Science. Butelhof's _Programming with Posix Threads_, because another book referenced its explanation of why Win32 threading had a bug because it could not, at the time, signal and wait on a mutex in an atomic way. There was something deep to find in those…

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• planteen · Jan 6, 2017 · Recommends

  Some books will remain relevant. A quick glance at my bookshelf of old but relevant books: K&R The C Programming Language, Programming with POSIX Threads (it's from the 90s but pthreads really hasn't changed), Algorithms, and Expert C Programming.

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• bosch_mind · Feb 27, 2023 · Mentions

  Most books like k&r, programming with posix threads, Beej confirm this with C.

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