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This document is a hands-on worksheet for an Operating Systems lab focused on thread programming using POSIX Pthreads libraries. It outlines the objectives and various aspects of multithreading, including creating, terminating, and managing threads, along with key function calls such as pthread_create, pthread_exit, and pthread_join. The worksheet is designed to be completed in approximately 60 minutes.

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Assignment OS DA4

This document is a hands-on worksheet for an Operating Systems lab focused on thread programming using POSIX Pthreads libraries. It outlines the objectives and various aspects of multithreading, including creating, terminating, and managing threads, along with key function calls such as pthread_create, pthread_exit, and pthread_join. The worksheet is designed to be completed in approximately 60 minutes.

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Operating Systems Lab Hands-On Worksheet No: 11


Title: Thread Programming using POSIX Phread libraries
TimeRequired: 60 minutes
and multiprocessing/(and
Objective: To examines various aspects of threads Functiops like
multithreading). To implement the Thread Managemen
Execution, Passing Arguments To
Creating Threads, Terminating ThreadThreads, Detaching / Undetaching
Threads, Thread Identifiers, Joining
Threads.
Threads - The threads package it detkaes \is called
Description: POSIX systems.
calls,supported by most UNIX
Pthreads, including over 60 function
Some of the Pthreads function calls:
thread
1. pthread create - create anew
t * thread, pthread attr t * attr, (void *) (*start
int pthread create(pthread
routine)(void *), void * arg);
of current thread
2. pthread self-return identifier
Pthread t pthread self(void);
calling thread
3. pthread exit - terminate the
void pthread exit(void *retval);
termination of another thread
4. pthread join - wait for
return);
int pthread_ join(pthread _tth, void **thread
thread in the detached state
5. pthread detach - put a running
int pthread detach(pthread _tth);
cancellation
6. pthread cancel - thread
int pthread cancel(pthread_t thread);
pthread create:
#include <pthread. h>
int pthread create (
pthread t &tid,
pthread attr t *attr,
(void*) (*start routine) (void* )
(void *argtoroutine)

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