Threads Programming Guidelines

The following information provides guidelines for writing multi-threaded programs using the threads library (libpthreads.a). The AIX threads library is based on the X/Open Portability Guide Issue 5 standard. For this reason, the following information presents the threads library as the AIX implementation of the XPG5 standard.

If you want to learn how to write programs using multiple threads, you should read the topics in sequential order. If you are looking for specific information, choose one of the following topics:

• Thread Implementation Model
• Thread-safe and Threaded Libraries in AIX
• Threads Basic Operation Overview
• Synchronization Overview
• Scheduling Overview
• Threads Advanced Features
• Threads-Processes Interactions Overview
• Threads Library Options
• Threads Library Quick Reference.

Related Information

Parallel Programming introduces major concepts concerning threads.

Programming on Multiprocessor Systems highlights specific problems when writing programs for symetric multiprocessor systems.

Also see Subroutines, Example Programs, and Libraries.