SunOS 5.0, the operating system component of Solaris 2.0, contains the kernel support for multiple threads of control in a single process address space. This allows a single application to efficiently overlap I/O operations and to take advantage of more than one processor, if available. The authors describe some of the issues in using and converting libraries to the multithreaded environment. In addition, they give several examples of different uses of threads in user applications.
展开▼
