Is the PTHREAD only way to program multithreading in Linux ?

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I am porting my C++ application from windows to Linux.

While porting thread related stuff, what i observed is , we can use pthread. Is ther any other way out there in Linux for multithreading other than pthraed ?

Posted 21-Oct-12 21:14pm

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Legor · Answer 1 · 2012-10-21T21:19:00

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You can use the Thread module from the open source C++ library Boost. If you dont know Boost yet it is something you should look into anyway.
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_51_0/doc/html/thread.html[^]

Posted 21-Oct-12 21:19pm

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PrafullaVedante 22-Oct-12 3:20am

is ther anything which is native ? and not third party ?

Legor 22-Oct-12 3:51am

I'm not aware of anything else. But also Boost is a third party library which is very advisable. Many of the new features in C++0x for example were first provided in Boost (which isn't a suprise since Boost was founded by members of the C++ standardization commitee). In my opinion (and many others) every C++ developer should get known to Boost. It is especially for your case since Boost is designed to enable the development of portable code.

markkuk 22-Oct-12 7:32am

Pthreads are the native way of multithreading on Linux and all other Unix/Posix -style operating systems. C++11 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B11 has threads in its standard library, so you don't need third-party classes when a C++11 compatible G++ becomes available.