With this practical book, you will attain a solid understanding of threads and will discover how to put this powerful mode of programming to work in real-world applications. The …
General-purpose operating systems provide inadequate support for resource management in large-scale servers. Applications lack sufficient control over scheduling and management …
G Van Rossum, J De Boer - CWI quarterly, 1991 - ir.cwi.nl
This paper describes hovv two tools that were developed quite independently gained in power by a well-designed connection between them. The tools are Python, an interpreted …
This article explores memory sharing and protection support in Opal, a single-address- space operating system designed for wide-address (64-bit) architectures. Opal threads …
Despite decades of research in extensible operating system technology, extensions such as device drivers remain a significant cause of system failures. In Windows XP, for example …
This paper provides an introduction to writing concurrent programs with “threads”. A threads facility allows you to write programs with multiple simultaneous points of execution …
Distributed real-time systems play a very important role in our modern society. They are used in aircraft control, communication systems, military command and control systems …
MB Jones - Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM symposium on …, 1993 - dl.acm.org
Many contemporary operating systems utilize a system call interface between the operating system and its clients. Increasing numbers of systems are providing low-level mechanisms …
A common operation in multiprocessor programs is acquiring a lock to protect access to shared data. Typically, the requesting thread is blocked if the lock it needs is held by another …