Updated: 11 December 1998

Guide to DECthreads

Part 3
Part 3	Compaq Proprietary Interfaces: tis Routines Reference
Command 105	tis_cond_broadcast
Command 106	tis_cond_destroy
Command 107	tis_cond_init
Command 108	tis_cond_signal
Command 109	tis_cond_wait
Command 110	tis_getspecific
Command 111	tis_key_create
Command 112	tis_key_delete
Command 113	tis_lock_global
Command 114	tis_mutex_destroy
Command 115	tis_mutex_init
Command 116	tis_mutex_lock
Command 117	tis_mutex_trylock
Command 118	tis_mutex_unlock
Command 119	tis_once
Command 120	tis_read_lock
Command 121	tis_read_trylock
Command 122	tis_read_unlock
Command 123	tis_rwlock_destroy
Command 124	tis_rwlock_init
Command 125	tis_self
Command 126	tis_setcancelstate
Command 127	tis_setspecific
Command 128	tis_testcancel
Command 129	tis_unlock_global
Command 130	tis_write_lock
Command 131	tis_write_trylock
Command 132	tis_write_unlock
Part 4
Part 4	Appendixes
Appendix A
Appendix A	Considerations for DIGITAL UNIX Systems
A.1	Overview
A.2	Building DECthreads Applications
A.2.1	Including DECthreads Header Files
A.2.2	Building Multithreaded Applications from DECthreads Libraries
A.2.3	Linking Multithreaded Shared Libraries
A.2.4	Compiling Applications With the tis Interface
A.3	Two-Level Scheduling on DIGITAL UNIX Systems
A.3.1	DECthreads Use of Kernel Threads
A.3.2	Support for Real-Time Scheduling
A.4	Thread Cancelability of System Services
A.4.1	Current Cancelation Points
A.4.2	Future Cancelation Points
A.5	Using Signals
A.5.1	POSIX sigwait Service
A.5.2	Handling Synchronous Signals as Exceptions
A.6	Thread Stack Guard Areas
A.7	Dynamic Activation
Appendix B
Appendix B	Considerations for OpenVMS Systems
B.1	Overview
B.2	Compiling Under OpenVMS
B.3	Linking OpenVMS Images
B.4	Using DECthreads with AST Routines
B.5	Dynamic Activation
B.6	Default and Minimum Thread Stack Size
B.7	Requesting a Specific, Absolute Thread Stack Size
B.8	Declaring an OpenVMS Condition Handler
B.9	Thread Cancelability of System Services
B.10	Using OpenVMS Alpha 64-Bit Addressing
B.11	DECthreads Condition Values
B.12	Two-Level Scheduling on OpenVMS Alpha Systems
B.12.1	Linker Options to Specify Image's Use of Kernel Threads
B.12.2	Setting Kernel Threads Support in Existing Images
B.12.2.1	Examples
B.12.3	Querying and Setting Kernel Threads Features
B.12.4	Creation of Virtual Processors
B.12.5	Delivery of ASTs
B.12.6	Blocking System Services
B.12.7	$HIBER and $WAKE
B.12.8	Event Flags
B.12.9	Interactions with OpenVMS
B.12.10	Image Exit
B.12.11	SYSGEN Parameter MULTITHREAD
B.12.12	Process Control System Services and DCL Commands
B.12.12.1	Process-Level System Services
B.12.12.2	Kernel-Level System Services
B.12.12.3	DCL Commands
B.13	Interoperability with POSIX for OpenVMS
Appendix C
Appendix C	Considerations for Windows NT Systems
C.1	DECthreads Interfaces on Windows NT Systems
C.1.1	pthread Interface
C.1.2	Other Interfaces
C.2	Compiling DECthreads Applications
C.3	Linking DECthreads Applications
C.4	Interoperability of Win32 API and DECthreads pthread Routines
C.5	Thread Cancelability of System Services
Appendix D
Appendix D	Debugging Multithreaded Applications
D.1	Using PTHREAD_CONFIG
D.1.1	Major and Minor Keywords
D.1.2	Specifying Multiple Values
D.2	Running DECthreads in Metered Mode
D.3	Using Ladebug on DIGITAL UNIX Systems
D.4	Debugging Threads on OpenVMS Systems
D.4.1	Display of Stack Trace from Unhandled Exception
D.5	Debugging Threads on Windows NT Systems
Appendix E
Appendix E	Migrating from the cma Interface
E.1	Overview
E.2	cma Handles
E.3	Interface Routine Mapping
E.4	New pthread Routines

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