Thread -And Process Management Overview

Purpose

Provides access to processes, threads, -thread-local storage, and access synchronisation.

These APIs provide -support for a programming style that employs multiple threads or processes -that share resource protected by synchronisation mechanisms such as mutexes. -Symbian platform provides alternatives to this style that are better suited -to a limited resource environment:

the active objects framework -provided by the Asynchronous Services API is usually preferred to multi-threading -in Symbian platform programming
server programs can -be used to serialise access to a shared resource

Description

Functionality is provided by a number -of APIs. Use them as follows:

Threads -And Processes Overview

Provides access to processes, threads, -and thread-local storage.

Semaphores -Overview

Synchronises access to shared resources within and -between processes.

Mutexes -Overview

Synchronises exclusive access to shared resources -within and between processes.

Critical -Sections Overview

Synchronises exclusive access to shared resources -within a single process.

See also

Asynchronous -Services Overview

Client/Server -Overview

System -Static Functions Overview

+ + + + + +Thread +And Process Management OverviewThis document provides an overview of thread and process management. +

Purpose

Provides access to processes, threads, +thread-local storage, and access synchronisation.

These APIs provide +support for a programming style that employs multiple threads or processes +that share resource protected by synchronisation mechanisms such as mutexes. +Symbian platform provides alternatives to this style that are better suited +to a limited resource environment:

the active objects framework +provided by the Asynchronous Services API is usually preferred to multi-threading +in Symbian platform programming
server programs can +be used to serialise access to a shared resource

Description

Functionality is provided by a number +of APIs. Use them as follows:

Threads +And Processes Overview

Provides access to processes, threads, +and thread-local storage.

Semaphores +Overview

Synchronises access to shared resources within and +between processes.

Mutexes +Overview

Synchronises exclusive access to shared resources +within and between processes.

Critical +Sections Overview

Synchronises exclusive access to shared resources +within a single process.