It's been quite a while since the people from whom we get our project assignments accepted the excuse "Gimme a break! I can only do one thing at a time!" It used to be such a good excuse, too, when things moved just a bit slower and a good day was m
The POSIX 1003.1-2001 standard defines an application programming interface (API) for writing multithreaded applications. This interface is known more commonly as pthreads. A good number of modern operating systems include a threading library of som