5.2 POSIX Multiprocessing
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5.2 POSIX Multiprocessing

This section scratches the surface of the POSIX environment, including pthreads [Ope97], as this environment is readily available and widely implemented. Section provides a glimpse of the POSIX fork() and related primitives, Section touches on thread creation and destruction, Section gives a brief overview of POSIX locking, and, finally, Section presents the analogous operations within the Linux kernel.

Subsections

- 5.2.1 POSIX Process Creation and Destruction
- 5.2.2 POSIX Thread Creation and Destruction
- 5.2.3 POSIX Locking
- 5.2.4 POSIX Reader-Writer Locking