POSIX Threads Programming course outline

1. Introduction
   • Thread creation
   • Thread termination
   • Joining and detaching threads
   • Threads versus processes
2. Thread synchronization: mutexes and condition variables
   • Shared resources and critical sections
   • Protecting shared resources: mutexes
   • Signaling state changes: condition variables
3. Thread attributes
   • Scheduling policy and parameters
   • Thread stack and guard page size
   • Getting and setting thread attributes
4. Thread safety and per-thread storage
   • Reentrant and thread-safe functions
   • Thread-specific data
   • Thread-local storage
5. Thread cancellation
   • Canceling a thread
   • Cancellation state and cancellation type
   • Cancellation points
   • Cancellation cleanup handlers
6. Other synchronization techniques (*)
   • Spin locks
   • Read-write locks
   • Barriers

(*) Topics marked with an asterisk will be covered subject to time constraints.

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