Hi there,
Beginning to play with some code in linux plateform for audio, I face a major problem: I have a very weak understanding of thread programming. I know the basic concepts (thread principle, mutex and lock), but fail to use them effectively. I found a lot of links on thread programming, but it is just about the API (generally pthread), and the examples are really trivial in general. When I looked at the archive, I see a lot of terms which I don't really understand, like watchdog thread, thread scheduling, and I am lost :( So does anybody know a good and deep online ressource about thread programming ? Also, my main language is C++, and I looked a bit at boost library. It should be kind of a detail, but are there deep differences between pthread and boost.threads ?
Boost.Thread will provide you with a cross platform abstraction on top of native APIs like pthread, its very convenient although you can't adjust thread priorities. Personally I haven't read much litterature on threading, but the Boost.Thread examples were of great help for getting to grips with basics like synchronizing access with mutexes. I think Thread Time is supposed to be a good book on the subject though.
Cheers
Arve Knudsen
