Sunday, January 1, 2012

Threads

Discuss Operating system Threads
1.Why threads
2.Advantages & Disadvantges
3.Context switch of threads

Useful Links:-
http://www.personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/OpSystems/Myos/threads.htm
http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/node29.html 
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=25075





2 comments:

  1. http://www.personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/OpSystems/Myos/threads.htm

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  2. Thread is a basic unit of CPU utilisation.

    Owns------
    1.Thread ID 2.a PC 3.a register set 4.a stack
    Shares-----
    1.code section 2.data section 3.OS resources such as open files & signals

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