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30.Dd February 1, 2005
31.Dt PTHREAD 3
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm pthread
35.Nd POSIX Threads Library
36.Sh LIBRARY
37.Lb libpthread
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39.In pthread.h
40.Pp
41.Nm cc
42.Op Ar flags
43.Ar files
44.Fl lpthread
45.Op Ar libraries
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47The
48.Nm
49library is an implementation of the standard
50.Tn POSIX
51threads library using the Scheduler Activations framework
52in the
53.Nx
54kernel, providing a kernel-supported MxN scheduling system.
55.Sh ENVIRONMENT
56.Bl -tag -width PTHREAD_DEBUGCOUNTERSXX -compact
57.It Ev PTHREAD_CONCURRENCY
58The number of concurrent threads to be run.
59This value should at least be 1,
60and smaller than or equal to the number of CPUs.
61.It Ev PTHREAD_DIAGASSERT
62Possible values are any combinations of:
63.Bl -tag -width ignoreXX -offset indent -compact
64.It Sy A
65Ignore errors.
66.It Sy a
67Abort on errors, creating a core dump for further debugging.
68.It Sy E
69Do not log errors to stdout.
70.It Sy e
71Log errors to stdout.
72.It Sy L
73Do not log errors via
74.Xr syslogd 8 .
75.It Sy l
76Log errors via
77.Xr syslogd 8 .
78.El
79.It Ev PTHREAD_DEBUGCOUNTERS
80Print pthread event counters before the program terminates.
81.It Ev PTHREAD_DEBUGLOG
82Write debugging information into shared memory.
83This debug log can be parsed and printed by the
84.Nm debuglog
85program found in
86.Pa src/lib/libpthread/debuglog.c .
87.\" Following commented out since it will be removed shortly.
88.\".It Ev PTHREAD_PREEMPT
89.\"Generate upcalls on a vanilla
90.\".Fn preempt .
91.It Ev PTHREAD_RRTIME
92Integer value giving the round-robin interval in ms.
93The default is 100.
94If set to 0, timer-based round-robin scheduling is disabled.
95.It Ev PTHREAD_STACKSIZE
96Integer value giving the stack size in kilobytes.
97This allows to set a smaller stack size than the default stack size.
98The default stack size is the current limit on the stack size as
99set with the shell's command to change limits
100.Ic ( limit
101for
102.Xr csh 1 ,
103or
104.Ic ulimit
105for
106.Xr sh 1 ) .
107.El
108.Sh SEE ALSO
109.Xr pthread_attr 3 ,
110.Xr pthread_barrier_destroy 3 ,
111.Xr pthread_barrier_init 3 ,
112.Xr pthread_barrier_wait 3 ,
113.Xr pthread_barrierattr 3 ,
114.Xr pthread_cancel 3 ,
115.Xr pthread_cleanup_push 3 ,
116.Xr pthread_cond_broadcast 3 ,
117.Xr pthread_cond_destroy 3 ,
118.Xr pthread_cond_init 3 ,
119.Xr pthread_cond_wait 3 ,
120.Xr pthread_condattr 3 ,
121.Xr pthread_create 3 ,
122.Xr pthread_detach 3 ,
123.Xr pthread_equal 3 ,
124.Xr pthread_exit 3 ,
125.Xr pthread_getspecific 3 ,
126.Xr pthread_join 3 ,
127.Xr pthread_key_create 3 ,
128.Xr pthread_key_delete 3 ,
129.Xr pthread_kill 3 ,
130.Xr pthread_mutex_destroy 3 ,
131.Xr pthread_mutex_init 3 ,
132.Xr pthread_mutex_lock 3 ,
133.Xr pthread_mutex_unlock 3 ,
134.Xr pthread_mutexattr 3 ,
135.Xr pthread_once 3 ,
136.Xr pthread_rwlock_destroy 3 ,
137.Xr pthread_rwlock_init 3 ,
138.Xr pthread_rwlock_rdlock 3 ,
139.Xr pthread_rwlock_unlock 3 ,
140.Xr pthread_rwlock_wrlock 3 ,
141.Xr pthread_rwlockattr 3 ,
142.Xr pthread_schedparam 3 ,
143.Xr pthread_self 3 ,
144.Xr pthread_setspecific 3 ,
145.Xr pthread_sigmask 3 ,
146.Xr pthread_spin_destroy 3 ,
147.Xr pthread_spin_init 3 ,
148.Xr pthread_spin_lock 3 ,
149.Xr pthread_spin_unlock 3 ,
150.Xr pthread_testcancel 3
151.Rs
152.%A Thomas E. Anderson
153.%A Brian N. Bershad
154.%A Edward D. Lazowska
155.%A Henry M. Levy
156.%T "Scheduler Activations: Effective Kernel Support for the \
157User-Level Management of Parallelism"
158.%J ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
159.%V Vol. 10
160.%N No. 1
161.%D February 1992
162.%P 53-79
163.Re
164.Rs
165.%A Nathan J. Williams
166.%T "An Implementation of Scheduler Activations on the NetBSD \
167Operating System"
168.%J "Proceedings of the FREENIX Track: 2002 USENIX Annual Technical \
169Conference (FREENIX '02)"
170.%D 2002
171.%O http://www.mit.edu/people/nathanw/usenix/
172.Re
173.Sh STANDARDS
174The
175.Nm
176library conforms to
177.St -p1003.1-2001 .
178.Sh AUTHORS
179.An Nathan J. Williams
180.Aq nathanw@NetBSD.org
181