Download or read book PThreads Programming written by Bradford Nichols and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With threads programming, multiple tasks run concurrently within the same program. They can share a single CPU as processes do or take advantage of multiple CPUs when available. They provide a clean way to divide the tasks of a program while sharing data.