Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 21:33:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! I need info on pthreads. Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960426213017.21001A-100000@ginger.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <4lj36e$hfb@austin.polstra.com>
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On 23 Apr 1996, John Polstra wrote: > In article <199604230013.KAA18978@melb.werple.net.au>, > John Birrell <cimaxp1!jb@melb.werple.net.au> wrote: > > > > I haven't looked for books on how to use pthreads. I'm from an OSF/1 > > environment where we used DEC's poor examples as a start. Their bookreader > > docs aren't too bad at describing the functions, but they are not good > > at describing how to design a threaded application. > > There's a really superb article on exactly that at: > > http://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/SRC/research-reports/abstracts/src-rr-035.html John, I downloaded this one, as well as a couple others (great reference!) but I have a problem with this one in particular. For some reason, ghostview clips the last (rightmost) inch of text, no matter how I scroll this, or what papersize I use. Do you see this problem? Does anyone know of (even a junky) postscript to ascii converter, so I can at least read this paper? > > It's by Andrew D. Birrell. (Who's he, John, your long lost brother? :-) > > Incidentally, it is a technical report from DEC's Systems Research > Center. They have many excellent TRs on interesting topics. You can > find an index of them at: > > http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/publications/src-rr.html > > Almost all of them are available in Postscript form. They'll also mail > you paper copies and/or associated videos, for free. It's a great > service! ========================================================================== Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu, I run FreeBSD-current on n3lxx + Journey2 Three Accounts for the Super-users in the sky, Seven for the Operators in their halls of fame, Nine for Ordinary Users doomed to crie, One for the Illegal Cracker with his evil game In the Domains of Internet where the data lie. One Account to rule them all, One Account to watch them, One Account to make them all and in the network bind them.
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