Multithreaded Programming with Windows-NT (Bk/Disk)

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Features

• brings multithreading to the Windows NT operating system.
• offers solutions for the problems introduced by multithreading, including resource sharing, deadlocks, and race conditions.
• describes a video-on-demand application that brings together the cable and movie industries.

Description

Multithreaded programming can effectively improve efficiency and performance in an application program by introducing concurrency and parallelism. This book details techniques for designing and implementing multithreaded software applications in the Windows NT operating system. KEY TOPICS: Covers the Windows NT thread interface, thread synchronizations, thread priorities, resource sharing, deadlock analysis, and thread-package architectures. MARKET: For application developers who want to experiment with multithreaded programming.

Sample Content

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.
2. Windows NT Thread Interface.
3. Thread Synchronization.
4. Monitors.
5. Simulating Monitors.
6. Deadlock Analysis.
7. Thread-Package Architectures.
8. Programming Models.
9. Threads in Distributed Applications.
Appendix A. WorkCrew Implementation.
Bibliography.
Index.

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