Overview - Thread Concepts and Operations

This topic discusses concepts and techniques related to DCE Threads. The following topics are covered:

· Thread operations

· New primitives

· Attributes objects

· Synchronization objects

· One-time initialization code

· Thread-specific data

· Thread cancellation

· Thread scheduling

For detailed information on the multithreading routines referred to in this topic, see the reference page for that routine in the OSF DCE Application Development Reference.