threads with Linux?

[Guest_imported]

Hi, sorry if my message appears twice!
My work consists in translating a work from Windows to Linux. These windows programs are very hungry for CPU. There are a few programs running at the same time but some have to get higher priority than others etc... I was told to use threads but i'm no sure it exists on Linux. What would be the equivalent?

thank you!

thomas

 

[Themuppeteer]

threads in linux call processes,you can run multiple pocesses at the same time. If you are programming, you can use fork() to start a new process. For more information,check this or the c++ for unix forum on "fork".
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[abbeman]

You can use threads in linux as well, take a look at the manpage for pthread(3).

 

[smaniraja]

Take look at

http://users.actcom.co.il/~choo/lupg/tutorials/multi-thread/multi-thread.html

This may be very much useful for you.

---Maniraja S

 

[ami123]

Traditional UNIXes normally have a pthread library with pthread_create(), pthread_destroy() calls. Linux supports these calls but the underlying call is clone() which creates threads. Dont be surprised to see an extra thread created.fork() will crate two instances of the same process but they cant share data segments whereas threads can.

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-Amit

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