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Mastering C++ Programming

You're reading from   Mastering C++ Programming Modern C++ 17 at your fingertips

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786461629
Length 384 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jeganathan Swaminathan Jeganathan Swaminathan
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Preface 1. C++17 Features 2. Standard Template Library FREE CHAPTER 3. Template Programming 4. Smart Pointers 5. Developing GUI Applications in C++ 6. Multithreaded Programming and Inter-Process Communication 7. Test-Driven Development 8. Behavior-Driven Development 9. Debugging Techniques 10. Code Smells and Clean Code Practices

Introduction to POSIX pthreads


Unix, Linux, and macOS are largely compliant with the POSIX standard. Portable Operating System Interface for Unix (POSIX) is an IEEE standard that helps all Unix and Unix-like operating systems, that is Linux and macOS, communicate with a single interface.

Interestingly, POSIX is also supported by POSIX-compliant tools--Cygwin, MinGW, and Windows subsystem for Linux--that provide a pseudo-Unix-like runtime and development environment on Windows platforms.

Note that pthread is a POSIX-compliant C library used in Unix, Linux, and macOS. Starting from C++11, C++ natively supports threads via the C++ thread support library and concurrent library. In this chapter, we will understand how to use pthreads, thread support, and concurrency library in an object-oriented fashion. Also, we will discuss the merits of using native C++ thread support and concurrency library as opposed to using POSIX pthreads or other third-party threading frameworks.

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