I am trying to sum up 1000 elements integer array(where each element is 1) with pthread library by splitting the array in to segments of size 10. So e ...

I am reading pthread man and seeing following: With NPTL, all of the threads in a process are placed in the same thread group; all members of a th ...

I have come across the POSIX-compliant NPTL(native posix thread library) been mentioned at several forums. I want to understand how pthreads are imple ...

The HP man page (link) says "By default, the new thread's scheduling policy and priority are inherited from the creating thread---that is, by def ...

If I call pthread_cond_broadcast and no one is waiting on the condition, will the pthread_cond_broadcast invoke a context switch and/or call to kernel ...

I tested some code in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server x64(3.2 kernel), which I think is using NPTL. when I run I get The following is the test code. I ...

Recently when I look into how the thread-local storage is implemented in glibc, I found the following code, which implements the API pthread_key_creat ...

I am trying to debug some code regarding stack usage. I have made the following test program (just as an example to figure out how the pthread library ...

I have to implement kernel level thread but while searching on the net I found that there are three ways to create kernel level thread in linux: N ...

I am trying to understand what the following code segment from tls.h in glibc is doing and why: I think I understand the basic operation it is movi ...

What is the basic difference between NPTL and POSIX threads? How have these two evolved? ...

There was rather huge commit-git into nptl/glibc: http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=e51deae7f6ba2e490d5faeb8fbf4eeb32ae8f1ee by Ulri ...

I am trying to build a modified version of libc/NPTL. My ubuntu version shows that it is version 2.13. I want to create a separate libc/nptl/libpthrea ...

My webservers use the usual Java I/O with thread per connection mechanism. Nowadays, they are getting on their knees with increased user (long polli ...

The following code is supposed to make 100,000 threads: This is running on a 64bit machine with 32GB of RAM; Debian 5.0 installed, all stock. u ...

I hav a programme, which must work differently for linuxthreads and nptl. Are there defines in this libs, that can be used in my programme to detect, ...

I've written some pthread code that use timed waits on a condition variable but in order to ensure a relative wait I've set the condvar's clock type t ...

I am developing a multithread modular application using C programming language and NPTL 2.6. For each plugin, a POSIX thread is created. The problem i ...

Notice these two RedHat Linux system configuration settings: I see they correspond to some of the TLS libraries: I'd like to link against these ...

On Linux/NPTL, threads are created as some kind of process. I can see some of my process have a weird cmdline: Do you have an idea how I could do ...