Re: C++ and threading howto for linux dev

[Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>]

On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:55:00 +0200
Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes@yahoo.com> wrote:

> ga wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Check out these ones:
> >
> http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/glibmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/thread_2thread_8cc-example.html#_a11
> >
> http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/glibmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/thread_2dispatcher_8cc-example.html#_a0
> > 
> > Doc:
> >
> http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/glibmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/classGlib_1_1Thread.html
> > 
> 
> Thanks a lot ga. So you mean using the Glib classes. I had a look ... I can
> include it in my testing list :-)
> 
> It also links to pthread
> 
> bash$> ldd /usr/lib/libgtkmm-2.4.so.1.0.30
>         linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb8007000)
>         libgdkmm-2.4.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgdkmm-2.4.so.1 (0xb7c65000)
> ....
>         libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
> 
> I bet qt is also using pthread
> 
> So it's better to access pthread myself. The advantage of using the above
> and not pthread is that everything has been packed in a class already.
> 
> The above examples are still very useful to give an idea of the
> implementation logic.
> 
> Thanks and kind regards
> 
> 
> 

As far as I know all linux thread implementation link to ptreahds. Everything else is a wrapper around pthreads.