%threads.entities; ]> AndrewsSchnieder83 Vol. 15 No. 1 March, 1983 Gregory R. Andrews Fred B. Schneider Good general background reading. Includes descriptions of Path Expressions, Message Passing, and Remote Procedure Call in addition to the basics Boost The Boost world wide web site. http://www.boost.org &Boost.Threads; is one of many Boost libraries. The Boost web site includes a great deal of documentation and general information which applies to all Boost libraries. Current copies of the libraries including documentation and test programs may be downloaded from the web site. Hansen73 Vol. 5 No. 4 December, 1973 0-201-63392-2 Per Brinch Hansen "This paper describes the evolution of language features for multiprogramming from event queues and semaphores to critical regions and monitors." Includes analysis of why events are considered error-prone. Also noteworthy because of an introductory quotation from Christopher Alexander; Brinch Hansen was years ahead of others in recognizing pattern concepts applied to software, too. Butenhof97 David R. Butenhof Addison-Wesley 1997 ISNB: 0-201-63392-2 This is a very readable explanation of threads and how to use them. Many of the insights given apply to all multithreaded programming, not just POSIX Threads Hoare74 Vol. 17 No. 10 October, 1974 C.A.R. Hoare 549-557 Hoare and Brinch Hansen's work on Monitors is the basis for reliable multithreading patterns. This is one of the most often referenced papers in all of computer science, and with good reason. ISO98 ISO/IEC 14882:1998(E) This is the official C++ Standards document. Available from the ANSI (American National Standards Institute) Electronic Standards Store. McDowellHelmbold89 Vol. 21 No. 2 December, 1989 Charles E. McDowell David P. Helmbold Identifies many of the unique failure modes and debugging difficulties associated with concurrent programs. SchmidtPyarali Douglas C. Schmidt Irfan Pyarali Department of Computer Science, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Rationale for understanding &Boost.Threads; condition variables. Note that Alexander Terekhov found some bugs in the implementation given in this article, so pthreads-win32 and &Boost.Threads; are even more complicated yet. SchmidtStalRohnertBuschmann Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects POSA2 Douglas C. Schmidt Michael Stal Hans Rohnert Frank Buschmann Wiley 2000 This is a very good explanation of how to apply several patterns useful for concurrent programming. Among the patterns documented is the Monitor Pattern mentioned frequently in the &Boost.Threads; documentation. Stroustrup Special Edition Addison-Wesley 2000 ISBN: 0-201-70073-5 The first book a C++ programmer should own. Note that the 3rd edition (and subsequent editions like the Special Edition) has been rewritten to cover the ISO standard language and library.