DECthreads

DECthreads is a library of routines built on the basic Mach threads capabilities in the OSF code that support the development of multithreaded applications on Digital UNIX. DECthreads is an implementation the POSIX 1003.1c-1995 standard API and also provides a proprietary API to aid in porting applications from other Digital platforms such as OpenVMS. Note that DECthreads also provides an implementation of draft 4 of the POSIX 1003.1c (formerly known as 1003.4a) specification which will be retired in the next release. This implementation is being provided only to allow applications extra time to convert their draft standard implementation to the finalized POSIX standard interface.

DECthreads is compatible with DCE requirements for threads and is the threads library used by Digital's DCE product. In addition, DECthreads is integrated with the Digital UNIX kernel, providing SMP capabilities for multithreaded applications and realtime scheduling policies and priorities for multithreaded realtime applications.