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2202::BUTENHOF4Wed May 28 1986Thu May 11 1989VMS RTL, Common Multithread
DCEIDL::BUTENHOF1,459Mon Dec 21 1992Mon Mar 03 1997Dave Butenhof, DECthreads
KALKIN::BUTENHOF905Thu May 08 1986Wed Sep 27 1989Approachable Systems
KALKIN::butenhof3Tue Apr 10 1990Thu Apr 12 1990Better Living Through Concurrency!
R2ME2::BUTENHOF335Wed Oct 02 1985Fri Dec 18 1992Better Living Through Concurrency!
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clt::cma165DECthreads Conference
vaxaxp::notes$archive:alphanotes_v17Alpha Support conference
galvia::decwrite4You can't go wrong with DECwrite
7.286::maconline2Macintosh Archives Conference online - MAConline
noted::motif1"OSF/Motif" is a trademark
7.286::star_trek1STAR TREK
7.286::osf_archive1Open Software Foundation -- the Organization
turris::decc_alpha1DEC C ALPHA CONFERENCE

Conference galvia::decwrite (You can't go wrong with DECwrite)

4 posts
TOPIC 21.0 DECwrite V.next wishlist/requirements
21.222Tue Oct 08 1991 10:44 Vertical Centering 17 lines
21.243Wed Dec 11 1991 10:30 Baseline Grid 12 lines
TOPIC 2181.0 compose key seq?
2181.6Wed Dec 04 1991 04:30 Conforms to standards. Less compatible. 19 lines
TOPIC 2216.0 DECWrite and QUARKXPRESS. Any experience ?
2216.1Wed Dec 04 1991 04:56 You can't do it, and why would you want to? :-) 35 lines

Conference 7.286::maconline (Macintosh Archives Conference online - MAConline)

2 posts
TOPIC 2543.0 Prince of Persia Demo
2543.25Thu Aug 27 1992 07:45 Never even tried the demo... 34 lines
2543.29Fri Aug 28 1992 06:50 See Prince Run -- Run Prince, Run! (Ooops; Ouch!) 39 lines

Conference noted::motif ("OSF/Motif" is a trademark)

1 posts
TOPIC 2274.0 DCE and Motif
2274.2Wed Nov 27 1991 09:54 Nobody else cares 28 lines

Conference vaxaxp::notes$archive:alphanotes_v1 (Alpha Support conference)

7 posts
TOPIC 620.0 Alpha Slogans
620.29Fri Aug 28 1992 15:51 Well, OUR Flamingo certainly crashes fast enough... 10 lines
TOPIC 635.0 DECthreads ?
635.6Wed Aug 26 1992 06:09 DECthreads on OpenVMS Alpha 50 lines
635.10Thu Aug 27 1992 08:32 75 lines
635.13Fri Aug 28 1992 09:14 $SYNCH 101 lines
635.16Fri Aug 28 1992 15:41 31 lines
635.19Tue Sep 01 1992 07:18 38 lines
TOPIC 654.0 Common Error Handling code for VAX and ALPHA?
654.5Fri Aug 28 1992 07:46 Concert Multithread is dead: long live DECthreads 18 lines

Conference 7.286::star_trek (STAR TREK)

1 posts
TOPIC 569.0 Star Trek: The Screen Saver
569.1Fri Aug 21 1992 07:42 just by the way, for those of us with REAL home computers ( :-) ) 13 lines

Conference clt::cma (DECthreads Conference)

165 posts
TOPIC 6.0 DECthreads and related documentation
6.5Wed May 08 1991 12:31 DECthreads exception specification 8 lines
6.6Wed May 08 1991 12:37 DECthreads P1003.4a/D4 extensions document 22 lines
TOPIC 90.0 Is cma_select alertable, or alertsafe?
90.5Wed Apr 10 1991 12:41 We're consistent with CMA and POSIX 28 lines
TOPIC 95.0 cma_once() a memory synch point?
95.4Mon May 06 1991 12:50 You're quite correct 10 lines
95.6Wed May 08 1991 11:58 No, that's not true 15 lines
95.8Thu May 09 1991 12:13 Nope... doesn't work that way 27 lines
TOPIC 168.0 help using cma library services
168.5Tue Jun 25 1991 14:03 DECthreads BL7 13 lines
TOPIC 170.0 Stack size upper bound ?
170.5Wed Jul 24 1991 12:53 You can always find out default attribute values... 17 lines
TOPIC 179.0 schedual policy and priority ???
179.9Tue Oct 15 1991 15:10 ??? 10 lines
179.11Wed Oct 16 1991 11:08 5 lines
TOPIC 207.0 cma_nfw, seg fault if out of core in cma_init
207.1Thu Apr 11 1991 18:16 There is a small multilegged creature crawling on your VM code... 15 lines
TOPIC 215.0 courses
215.1Thu Apr 25 1991 10:05 Any Education type folks listening? 12 lines
215.3Fri Apr 26 1991 12:49 Programming With Threads 15 lines
TOPIC 216.0 CMA & ultrix SQL design for performance
216.1Fri Apr 26 1991 13:00 Maybe 19 lines
TOPIC 217.0 malloc is time consuming
217.1Tue Apr 30 1991 11:42 Interesting 19 lines
217.4Tue Apr 30 1991 19:28 Hold it, guys! 23 lines
217.8Thu May 02 1991 12:00 Not quite... 20 lines
217.12Mon May 06 1991 12:44 Good stuff 17 lines
TOPIC 220.0 segviolations, bus errs - no exception, no message
220.1Tue May 07 1991 11:10 Sounds like a QAR if you can reproduce it reliably 9 lines
220.3Wed May 08 1991 12:03 You can't 12 lines
TOPIC 221.0 yielding for ever.
221.2Tue May 07 1991 11:12 7 lines
TOPIC 223.0 signal handling
223.1Wed May 08 1991 12:23 Thanks for reminding me! 53 lines
TOPIC 224.0 CMA uses huge amounts of VM
224.7Fri May 10 1991 13:03 Sometimes you have to reinvent 30 lines
224.15Wed Aug 21 1991 13:45 Thread stack management 14 lines
TOPIC 227.0 CMA Design Center Questioned
227.2Thu May 09 1991 12:29 Whoa there! 42 lines
TOPIC 229.0 struct timespec
229.6Tue May 14 1991 17:55 struct timespec 7 lines
TOPIC 230.0 Anyone used sharables which link against CMA sharables?
230.1Fri May 17 1991 08:34 7 lines
230.5Tue May 28 1991 23:41 primitive language/inflexible linker :-) 8 lines
TOPIC 232.0 Debugging help needed
232.3Fri May 31 1991 13:43 Not an easy task... 10 lines
232.7Thu Jun 13 1991 18:43 21 lines
TOPIC 235.0 CMA VMS condition codes - need definitions
235.3Wed Jun 05 1991 13:17 cma$s_exit_thread 16 lines
TOPIC 236.0 Wish: formatting handles
236.1Wed Jun 05 1991 13:21 Good suggestion... 10 lines
236.3Thu Jun 06 1991 13:53 Robustness 29 lines
236.7Tue Jun 11 1991 10:46 Thread "unique value" 16 lines
236.10Mon Jul 15 1991 19:38 Same number 7 lines
TOPIC 238.0 cma_exception.h needs cma.h ???
238.1Thu Jun 13 1991 18:34 Intention is not necessarily reality :-) 8 lines
TOPIC 239.0 cma_e_alerted
239.1Thu Jun 13 1991 18:47 Yep, you can do it 13 lines
TOPIC 240.0 Is it possible to access thread context within destructor function ?
240.1Mon Jun 17 1991 14:44 That's correct 9 lines
TOPIC 242.0 CMA vs. Pthreads: some questions from a novice
242.2Wed Jun 19 1991 13:49 Right 17 lines
242.6Wed Jun 26 1991 15:15 CMA vs pthreads 31 lines
TOPIC 245.0 Wish: better support for VMS condition handlers
245.1Mon Jun 24 1991 12:39 cma_wishlist (cma_c_enter, "cma$establish") == cma_c_true 4 lines
245.4Tue Jul 30 1991 19:40 More specifically... 20 lines
245.6Wed Jul 31 1991 14:14 TRUST us! 21 lines
245.9Thu Aug 01 1991 14:06 That sounds fairly difficult 9 lines
245.13Fri Aug 02 1991 14:05 The final "longjmp" isn't the problem... 18 lines
245.15Mon Aug 05 1991 11:15 Still not that simple 15 lines
TOPIC 246.0 Newly created mutex locked by non-existent thread??
246.1Thu Jun 27 1991 12:21 Hmmm 10 lines
246.6Fri Jun 28 1991 13:11 Definitely looks a bit strange... 31 lines
246.11Mon Jul 01 1991 13:48 The Game is Afoot 9 lines
246.12Mon Jul 01 1991 16:15 Initial answer for Jim's QAR 128 on this problem, for everyone's reference... 42 lines
246.14Tue Jul 02 1991 17:04 Any information you can give would help... 33 lines
246.24Mon Jul 15 1991 19:35 Recursive mutexes and condition variables 18 lines
TOPIC 247.0 Unresolved references in BL7?
247.3Fri Jun 28 1991 13:21 My apologies 5 lines
TOPIC 250.0 New VMS Debugger with bl7?
250.2Mon Jul 01 1991 13:54 5 lines
TOPIC 254.0 cma_cond_signal change has introduced a new race condition
254.3Mon Jul 15 1991 19:56 To summarize (belatedly) 22 lines
TOPIC 255.0 How's the cost of thread context switch?
255.10Mon Jul 15 1991 20:06 Cost of context switch 13 lines
TOPIC 256.0 Possible image ident problem
256.1Mon Jul 15 1991 20:16 Hmmm 14 lines
TOPIC 260.0 Where to put dcethreads.cat?
260.4Thu Oct 03 1991 11:16 If where it's supposed to be isn't, then... 8 lines
TOPIC 261.0 Is it legal to reuse attributes objects?
261.5Sun Jul 28 1991 16:40 It's magic 6 lines
TOPIC 263.0 Per-thread contexts being zero after destructor
263.1Tue Jul 30 1991 19:02 Not likely 23 lines
263.3Wed Jul 31 1991 14:03 ??? 28 lines
TOPIC 265.0 Thread ID
265.3Fri Aug 02 1991 14:16 Read-only 18 lines
TOPIC 266.0 Cleaning up after an exception
266.2Mon Aug 05 1991 11:19 Right 10 lines
TOPIC 271.0 mutex hang
271.2Tue Aug 20 1991 15:24 What's happening? 15 lines
TOPIC 272.0 Way to get a unique id for a mutex?
272.2Tue Aug 20 1991 15:34 POSIX compatibility 28 lines
TOPIC 273.0 CMA v. pthreads
273.2Tue Aug 20 1991 15:50 The history of CMA, OSF/1 pthreads, and POSIX 43 lines
273.4Wed Aug 21 1991 15:14 What question? 12 lines
273.8Mon Aug 26 1991 13:47 Yup. 9 lines
TOPIC 274.0 RMS in threads?
274.3Wed Aug 21 1991 14:46 BEEP! Semantics alert! 11 lines
TOPIC 275.0 pthreads printf problem in BL7
275.4Thu Aug 22 1991 12:41 By the way... 6 lines
275.6Thu Sep 05 1991 08:58 Ah, don'tcha love RISC? :-) 43 lines
275.9Fri Sep 06 1991 07:57 That's not the FRAME... just the arguments 7 lines
TOPIC 278.0 Wish: integrate mutex unlocking with condition handling better
278.1Mon Aug 26 1991 13:51 Interesting... 4 lines
TOPIC 280.0 Anyone used GNU-C with DECthreads?
280.5Fri Sep 13 1991 09:16 You'll like BL8 9 lines
TOPIC 281.0 Bus error?
281.3Tue Sep 03 1991 10:40 The world is not perfect, nor resources unlimited 11 lines
TOPIC 282.0 CMA on ULTRIX
282.1Tue Sep 03 1991 10:45 DECthreads on BSD-based ULTRIX (V4.x) 7 lines
282.7Fri Nov 15 1991 08:19 Yes, the situation HAS changed 10 lines
TOPIC 285.0 troubles with simple threads programs
285.1Tue Sep 10 1991 08:41 11 lines
285.4Tue Sep 17 1991 10:13 Sorry, no progress 10 lines
TOPIC 286.0 Passing data to/from a pthread_initroutine
286.1Fri Sep 13 1991 09:12 Yep; it's strange 33 lines
TOPIC 287.0 cma__open_general: unexpected fstat failure
287.1Mon Sep 16 1991 10:50 Dunno if this'll help, but... 17 lines
TOPIC 288.0 One mutex, multiple CVs?
288.3Wed Sep 18 1991 10:31 Recursive mutexes and other things that go "bump" in the night... 62 lines
288.5Thu Sep 19 1991 09:27 Huh. 6 lines
TOPIC 291.0 Messages look funny
291.2Wed Sep 25 1991 11:39 Right 23 lines
291.4Thu Sep 26 1991 08:50 Hmmm 12 lines
291.5Thu Sep 26 1991 08:54 Oh yeah... 4 lines
TOPIC 292.0 Thread Exception: Thread has been canceled?
292.1Wed Sep 25 1991 11:46 Some other thread cancelled it 24 lines
292.3Thu Sep 26 1991 09:11 18 lines
292.5Thu Sep 26 1991 17:14 19 lines
TOPIC 293.0 memory leak/pthread_detach
293.1Wed Oct 02 1991 09:08 That's not a leak 12 lines
TOPIC 294.0 EINTR on ULTRIX system (2) calls.
294.1Thu Oct 03 1991 11:20 11 lines
294.3Fri Oct 04 1991 07:53 DECthreads isn't an I/O system, or an O/S! 18 lines
294.7Mon Oct 07 1991 11:05 You're focusing on one example; forget about "timeout" 30 lines
294.9Tue Oct 08 1991 10:29 No, I think they're both apples 7 lines
294.11Wed Oct 09 1991 14:53 This is a deliberate FEATURE of UNIX 30 lines
TOPIC 295.0 Per-thread contexts initial value?
295.1Mon Oct 07 1991 11:12 Yep 13 lines
TOPIC 296.0 How to handle signals from within a try block
296.1Mon Oct 07 1991 11:18 No 9 lines
TOPIC 297.0 is recv(2) cancellable?
297.2Fri Oct 11 1991 08:16 Clarification? 11 lines
297.5Fri Oct 11 1991 14:05 That certainly looks like the one... 10 lines
TOPIC 298.0 CMA's exception handling
298.1Tue Oct 15 1991 08:54 DECthreads exception package 45 lines
TOPIC 300.0 mutex creation and deletion
300.1Fri Oct 18 1991 09:41 Seems this has nothing to do with DECthreads 7 lines
TOPIC 302.0 BL8 thread safe stdio routines on VMS ??
302.1Mon Oct 28 1991 09:19 Yes, you're on your own 23 lines
TOPIC 304.0 Language support definitions?
304.4Mon Oct 28 1991 09:28 Most of them are private 5 lines
TOPIC 307.0 Bugcheck: "Inconsistent return from cma_select"
307.1Mon Oct 28 1991 09:50 9 lines
TOPIC 308.0 ACCVIO on RERAISE?
308.4Mon Oct 28 1991 10:20 15 lines
308.8Tue Oct 29 1991 11:45 OK, OK... stop finding this weird stuff, huh? ;-) 16 lines
308.10Tue Oct 29 1991 15:57 6 lines
308.11Thu Oct 31 1991 10:54 Eureka! 23 lines
TOPIC 309.0 interpreted for Ultrix?
309.1Mon Oct 28 1991 10:38 11 lines
TOPIC 311.0 How to use condition variables
311.2Wed Oct 30 1991 06:19 Part 2 of Webb's story 93 lines
311.6Thu Oct 31 1991 08:49 Depends on what you want to happen 29 lines
TOPIC 312.0 Threads on ULTRIX?
312.2Thu Oct 31 1991 08:34 DECthreads 18 lines
TOPIC 313.0 Totally miffed, Calloc perhaps?
313.1Thu Oct 31 1991 09:01 DAS? 26 lines
313.3Fri Nov 01 1991 09:44 Yep... wrap 'em up 12 lines
TOPIC 316.0 handling alerts ???
316.1Tue Nov 05 1991 08:09 Philosophically wrong: but possible, and ought to work 22 lines
316.3Wed Nov 06 1991 07:10 A couple of things 47 lines
TOPIC 317.0 Cancel Semantics...?
317.1Wed Nov 06 1991 14:43 Cancellation 37 lines
317.3Thu Nov 07 1991 07:25 That's NOT a nit! 9 lines
TOPIC 318.0 segmenation fault within pthread_getspecific
318.2Fri Nov 08 1991 01:12 Always CREATE an object before REFERENCING it! 34 lines
318.5Fri Nov 15 1991 08:55 WARNING: this note contains graphic standardese; parental discretion is advised! 50 lines
318.7Sat Nov 16 1991 16:20 Standardese isn't (only) designed to confuse :-) 20 lines
TOPIC 319.0 Coordination of releases of DCE and MCC
319.5Wed Nov 13 1991 13:25 Version skew 12 lines
319.8Thu Nov 14 1991 07:36 BL8 -> BL7+? 13 lines
TOPIC 321.0 Strangeness with equivalenced exceptions.
321.3Mon Nov 11 1991 07:10 No answer now, but a few minor comments: 13 lines
321.4Mon Nov 11 1991 12:22 Interesting bug 41 lines
TOPIC 322.0 Simple pthread_cond_timedwait() question
322.1Tue Nov 12 1991 14:57 No. Well, not really 21 lines
TOPIC 323.0 Thread ERRNO
323.1Tue Nov 12 1991 14:59 per-thread errno is "transparent" 10 lines
TOPIC 324.0 FIFO scheduling question
324.2Wed Nov 13 1991 12:06 ???? 29 lines
324.4Thu Nov 14 1991 08:21 Ah 8 lines
TOPIC 325.0 POSIX 1003.4a Draft 5 support?
325.1Wed Nov 13 1991 13:17 First off, forget draft 5 69 lines
325.4Thu Nov 14 1991 08:10 Reality? But this is standards! 30 lines
325.6Wed Dec 11 1991 10:21 Draft 6? 11 lines
TOPIC 327.0 Redefinition of "free" & others in cmalib_crtlx.h
327.2Fri Nov 15 1991 08:30 27 lines
TOPIC 328.0 Multiple exceptions, same handler?
328.1Fri Nov 15 1991 09:02 8 lines
328.5Sat Nov 16 1991 16:31 When code freezes over... :-) 17 lines
TOPIC 329.0 Threaded Libraries for use from Non-Threaded Applications
329.1Sat Nov 16 1991 16:37 We're just ahead of our time 15 lines
TOPIC 330.0 state = TERM by exc, why?
330.1Tue Nov 19 1991 07:50 Not enough information 25 lines
TOPIC 332.0 cma_atfork?
332.2Thu Nov 14 1991 06:50 POSIX spawn 29 lines
TOPIC 336.0 DECthreads Performance
336.3Wed Dec 04 1991 04:11 Timeslicing is irrelevant here 20 lines
336.5Fri Dec 20 1991 06:04 Nobody said a user-mode multiplexing thread library was perfect! 35 lines
TOPIC 337.0 DECWindows and Motif Timeout Features
337.1Sat Nov 30 1991 10:57 Those are DECwindows restrictions you'll need to work around 10 lines
TOPIC 339.0 A wish for more objects
339.1Thu Dec 12 1991 05:17 16 lines
TOPIC 342.0 Segmentation fault [.block211:836 +0x8,0x462b3c]
342.1Tue Dec 17 1991 07:05 That's not much to go on 12 lines
342.2Wed Dec 18 1991 05:06 So, did the author delete the base note? 9 lines
TOPIC 343.0 pthread_init?
343.3Wed Dec 18 1991 05:19 cma_init vs. cma_once 27 lines
TOPIC 344.0 Comments on Silicon Graphics strategy
344.1Wed Dec 18 1991 05:26 Fine, as long as they implement the full POSIX 1003.4a API 16 lines
TOPIC 345.0 Performance metrics
345.2Fri Dec 20 1991 05:40 Not quite the numbers you want, though 23 lines
TOPIC 346.0 Problem with cma_cond_wait
346.3Thu Dec 26 1991 23:44 Debugging thread problems CAN be tough! 35 lines
TOPIC 348.0 Estimating Thread Stacks
348.3Fri Jan 10 1992 07:37 Stack sizing 52 lines
TOPIC 410.0 DECthreads on DEC OSF/1 (libpthreads.a)
410.10Tue Mar 24 1992 20:48 Watch those wrappers... 20 lines
TOPIC 417.0 Using $QIO and $WFLAND
417.3Tue Mar 24 1992 20:30 Use condition variables, not mutexes! 45 lines
TOPIC 488.0 Help with possible stack overflow
488.7Wed Aug 19 1992 06:58 16 lines
TOPIC 489.0 Problem with non-returning read() to raw device.
489.3Tue Aug 18 1992 07:07 26 lines
489.5Tue Aug 18 1992 15:04 11 lines
489.7Thu Aug 20 1992 08:44 53 lines
489.9Thu Aug 27 1992 08:00 Fair assessment... 26 lines
TOPIC 491.0 Is SYS$SYNC thread friendly on VMS V5.5?
491.3Tue Aug 18 1992 06:50 18 lines
491.7Wed Aug 19 1992 07:14 30 lines
TOPIC 492.0 CMA_DUMP.LOG, internal DECTHREADS problem
492.1Tue Aug 18 1992 07:48 16 lines
492.3Tue Aug 18 1992 14:59 17 lines
492.5Wed Aug 19 1992 07:26 23 lines
492.8Wed Aug 19 1992 13:59 8 lines
TOPIC 495.0 CMA unresolved symbols
495.1Fri Aug 21 1992 07:00 34 lines
TOPIC 496.0 Multithreaded server using UCX...
496.1Fri Aug 21 1992 07:13 23 lines
TOPIC 498.0 errno.h on VMS
498.2Wed Aug 26 1992 06:38 DECthreads: the operating system in a box 22 lines

Conference 7.286::osf_archive (Open Software Foundation -- the Organization)

1 posts
TOPIC 341.0 HERCULES/1 "link" problem
341.1Fri Oct 11 1991 07:58 The correct link switches for Hercules/1 DECthreads 14 lines

Conference turris::decc_alpha (DEC C ALPHA CONFERENCE)

1 posts
TOPIC334.0Thu Dec 19 1991 08:53 Problem with GEMC$CC X0.0-024 /DEBUG 38 lines

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