PTHREADS-WIN32 RELEASE 1.10.0 (2005-05-19) ----------------------------------------- Web Site: http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/ FTP Site: ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/pthreads-win32 Maintainer: Ross Johnson We are pleased to announce the availability of a new release of Pthreads-win32, an Open Source Software implementation of the Threads component of the POSIX 1003.1 2001 Standard for Microsoft's Win32 environment. Some functions from other sections of POSIX 1003.1 2001 are also supported including semaphores and scheduling functions. Some common non-portable functions are also implemented for additional compatibility, as are a few functions specific to pthreads-win32 for easier integration with Win32 applications. Pthreads-win32 is free software, distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). Acknowledgements ---------------- This library is based originally on a Win32 pthreads implementation contributed by John Bossom . The implementation of Condition Variables uses algorithms developed by Alexander Terekhov and Louis Thomas. The implementation of POSIX mutexes has been improved by Thomas Pfaff and later by Alexander Terekhov. The implementation of Spinlocks and Barriers was contributed by Ross Johnson. The implementation of read/write locks was contributed by Aurelio Medina and improved by Alexander Terekhov. Many others have contributed significant time and effort to solve crutial problems in order to make the library workable, robust and reliable. Thanks to Xavier Leroy for granting permission to use and modify his LinuxThreads manual pages. Thanks to The Open Group for making the Single Unix Specification publicly available - many of the manual pages included in the package were extracted from it. There is also a separate CONTRIBUTORS file. This file and others are on the web site: http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32 As much as possible, the ChangeLog file acknowledges contributions to the code base in more detail. Changes since the last release ------------------------------ These are now documented in the NEWS file. See the ChangeLog file also. Known Bugs ---------- These are now documented in the BUGS file. Level of standards conformance ------------------------------ The following POSIX 1003.1 2001 options are defined and set to 200112L: _POSIX_THREADS _POSIX_THREAD_SAFE_FUNCTIONS _POSIX_THREAD_ATTR_STACKSIZE _POSIX_THREAD_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING _POSIX_SEMAPHORES _POSIX_READER_WRITER_LOCKS _POSIX_SPIN_LOCKS _POSIX_BARRIERS The following POSIX 1003.1 2001 options are defined and set to -1: _POSIX_THREAD_ATTR_STACKADDR _POSIX_THREAD_PRIO_INHERIT _POSIX_THREAD_PRIO_PROTECT _POSIX_THREAD_PROCESS_SHARED The following POSIX 1003.1 2001 limits are defined and set: _POSIX_THREAD_THREADS_MAX _POSIX_SEM_VALUE_MAX _POSIX_SEM_NSEMS_MAX _POSIX_THREAD_KEYS_MAX _POSIX_THREAD_DESTRUCTOR_ITERATIONS PTHREAD_STACK_MIN PTHREAD_THREADS_MAX SEM_VALUE_MAX SEM_NSEMS_MAX PTHREAD_KEYS_MAX PTHREAD_DESTRUCTOR_ITERATIONS The following functions are implemented: --------------------------- PThreads --------------------------- pthread_attr_init pthread_attr_destroy pthread_attr_getdetachstate pthread_attr_getstackaddr pthread_attr_getstacksize pthread_attr_setdetachstate pthread_attr_setstackaddr pthread_attr_setstacksize pthread_create pthread_detach pthread_equal pthread_exit pthread_join pthread_once pthread_self pthread_cancel pthread_cleanup_pop pthread_cleanup_push pthread_setcancelstate pthread_setcanceltype pthread_testcancel --------------------------- Thread Specific Data --------------------------- pthread_key_create pthread_key_delete pthread_setspecific pthread_getspecific --------------------------- Mutexes --------------------------- pthread_mutexattr_init pthread_mutexattr_destroy pthread_mutexattr_getpshared pthread_mutexattr_setpshared pthread_mutexattr_gettype pthread_mutexattr_settype (types: PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT PTHREAD_MUTEX_NORMAL PTHREAD_MUTEX_ERRORCHECK PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE ) pthread_mutex_init pthread_mutex_destroy pthread_mutex_lock pthread_mutex_trylock pthread_mutex_timedlock pthread_mutex_unlock --------------------------- Condition Variables --------------------------- pthread_condattr_init pthread_condattr_destroy pthread_condattr_getpshared pthread_condattr_setpshared pthread_cond_init pthread_cond_destroy pthread_cond_wait pthread_cond_timedwait pthread_cond_signal pthread_cond_broadcast --------------------------- Read/Write Locks --------------------------- pthread_rwlock_init pthread_rwlock_destroy pthread_rwlock_tryrdlock pthread_rwlock_trywrlock pthread_rwlock_rdlock pthread_rwlock_timedrdlock pthread_rwlock_rwlock pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock pthread_rwlock_unlock pthread_rwlockattr_init pthread_rwlockattr_destroy pthread_rwlockattr_getpshared pthread_rwlockattr_setpshared --------------------------- Spin Locks --------------------------- pthread_spin_init pthread_spin_destroy pthread_spin_lock pthread_spin_unlock pthread_spin_trylock --------------------------- Barriers --------------------------- pthread_barrier_init pthread_barrier_destroy pthread_barrier_wait pthread_barrierattr_init pthread_barrierattr_destroy pthread_barrierattr_getpshared pthread_barrierattr_setpshared --------------------------- Semaphores --------------------------- sem_init sem_destroy sem_post sem_wait sem_trywait sem_timedwait sem_getvalue (# free if +ve, # of waiters if -ve) sem_open (returns an error ENOSYS) sem_close (returns an error ENOSYS) sem_unlink (returns an error ENOSYS) --------------------------- RealTime Scheduling --------------------------- pthread_attr_getschedparam pthread_attr_setschedparam pthread_attr_getinheritsched pthread_attr_setinheritsched pthread_attr_getschedpolicy (only supports SCHED_OTHER) pthread_attr_setschedpolicy (only supports SCHED_OTHER) pthread_getschedparam pthread_setschedparam pthread_getconcurrency pthread_setconcurrency pthread_attr_getscope pthread_attr_setscope (only supports PTHREAD_SCOPE_SYSTEM) sched_get_priority_max sched_get_priority_min sched_rr_get_interval (returns an error ENOTSUP) sched_setscheduler (only supports SCHED_OTHER) sched_getscheduler (only supports SCHED_OTHER) sched_yield --------------------------- Signals --------------------------- pthread_sigmask pthread_kill (only supports zero sig value, for thread validity checking) --------------------------- Non-portable routines (see the README.NONPORTABLE file for usage) --------------------------- pthread_getw32threadhandle_np pthread_timechange_handler_np pthread_delay_np pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np (types: PTHREAD_MUTEX_FAST_NP, PTHREAD_MUTEX_ERRORCHECK_NP, PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE_NP, PTHREAD_MUTEX_ADAPTIVE_NP, PTHREAD_MUTEX_TIMED_NP) pthread_num_processors_np pthread_win32_process_attach_np (Required when statically linking the library) pthread_win32_process_detach_np (Required when statically linking the library) pthread_win32_thread_attach_np (Required when statically linking the library) pthread_win32_thread_detach_np (Required when statically linking the library) --------------------------- Static Initializers --------------------------- PTHREAD_ONCE_INIT PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER PTHREAD_RECURSIVE_MUTEX_INITIALIZER PTHREAD_RECURSIVE_MUTEX_INITIALIZER_NP PTHREAD_ERRORCHECK_MUTEX_INITIALIZER PTHREAD_ERRORCHECK_MUTEX_INITIALIZER_NP PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER PTHREAD_RWLOCK_INITIALIZER PTHREAD_SPINLOCK_INITIALIZER --------------------------- Thread-Safe C Runtime Library (macros) --------------------------- strtok_r asctime_r ctime_r gmtime_r localtime_r rand_r The following functions are not implemented: --------------------------- RealTime Scheduling --------------------------- pthread_mutex_getprioceiling pthread_mutex_setprioceiling pthread_mutex_attr_getprioceiling pthread_mutex_attr_getprotocol pthread_mutex_attr_setprioceiling pthread_mutex_attr_setprotocol --------------------------- Fork Handlers --------------------------- pthread_atfork --------------------------- Stdio --------------------------- flockfile ftrylockfile funlockfile getc_unlocked getchar_unlocked putc_unlocked putchar_unlocked --------------------------- Thread-Safe C Runtime Library --------------------------- readdir_r getgrgid_r getgrnam_r getpwuid_r getpwnam_r --------------------------- Signals --------------------------- sigtimedwait sigwait sigwaitinfo --------------------------- General --------------------------- sysconf The library includes two non-API functions for creating cancellation points in applications and libraries: pthreadCancelableWait pthreadCancelableTimedWait Availability ------------ The prebuilt DLL, export libs (for both MSVC and Mingw32), and the header files (pthread.h, semaphore.h, sched.h) are available along with the complete source code. The source code can be found at: ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/pthreads-win32 and as individual source code files at ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/pthreads-win32/source The pre-built DLL, export libraries and include files can be found at: ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/pthreads-win32/dll-latest Mailing List ------------ There is a mailing list for discussing pthreads on Win32. To join, send email to: pthreads-win32-subscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com Application Development Environments ------------------------------------ See the README file for more information. MSVC: MSVC using SEH works. Distribute pthreadVSE.dll with your application. MSVC using C++ EH works. Distribute pthreadVCE.dll with your application. MSVC using C setjmp/longjmp works. Distribute pthreadVC.dll with your application. Mingw32: See the FAQ, Questions 6 and 10. Mingw using C++ EH works. Distribute pthreadGCE.dll with your application. Mingw using C setjmp/longjmp works. Distribute pthreadGC.dll with your application. Cygwin: (http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/) Developers using Cygwin will not need pthreads-win32 since it has POSIX threads support. Refer to its documentation for details and extent. UWIN: UWIN is a complete Unix-like environment for Windows from AT&T. Pthreads-win32 doesn't currently support UWIN (and vice versa), but that may change in the future. Generally: For convenience, the following pre-built files are available on the FTP site (see Availability above): pthread.h - for POSIX 1c threads semaphore.h - for POSIX 1b semaphores sched.h - for POSIX 1b scheduling pthreadVCE.dll - built with MSVC++ compiler using C++ EH pthreadVCE.lib pthreadVC.dll - built with MSVC compiler using C setjmp/longjmp pthreadVC.lib pthreadVSE.dll - built with MSVC compiler using SEH pthreadVSE.lib pthreadGCE.dll - built with Mingw32 G++ 2.95.2-1 pthreadGC.dll - built with Mingw32 GCC 2.95.2-1 using setjmp/longjmp libpthreadGCE.a - derived from pthreadGCE.dll libpthreadGC.a - derived from pthreadGC.dll gcc.dll - needed if distributing applications that use pthreadGCE.dll (but see the FAQ Q 10 for the latest related information) These are the only files you need in order to build POSIX threads applications for Win32 using either MSVC or Mingw32. See the FAQ file in the source tree for additional information. Documentation ------------- For the authoritative reference, see the online POSIX standard reference at: http://www.OpenGroup.org For POSIX Thread API programming, several reference books are available: Programming with POSIX Threads David R. Butenhof Addison-Wesley (pub) Pthreads Programming By Bradford Nichols, Dick Buttlar & Jacqueline Proulx Farrell O'Reilly (pub) On the web: see the links at the bottom of the pthreads-win32 site: http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/ Currently, there is no documentation included in the package apart from the copious comments in the source code. Enjoy! Ross Johnson