Concurrent C
by Narain Gehani & William D. Roome (AT&T Bell Laboratories)
ISBN 0-929306-00-7
1989
310 pages, Paperback
$49.95 (US Dollars)
Author Bios: Gehani, Roome

 Summary    Contents 

Table of Contents:

• Basics
  • Processes
  • Process Parameters
  • Process Interaction & Trans. Calls
  • Process Declarations
  • Process Creation
  • Process Values and Process Ids
  • Producer-Consumer Example
  • Shared Memory Hazards
  • Program Organization Suggestions
  • Examples
  • Exercises
• Advanced Facilities
  • Process Values & Process Management
  • The Delay Statement
  • Timed Transaction Calls
  • The Accept Statement
  • The Select Statement
  • Collective Termination
  • Transaction Pointers
  • Asynchronous Transaction Calls
  • Examples
  • Exercises
• Run-time Environment
  • Process Ids
  • Process States
  • Process Abortion
  • Process Priority
  • Number of Pending Transaction Calls
  • Giving Names to Process Instances
  • Processor Selection on a Multiproc.
  • Interrupts and Transactions
  • Process Stack Size
  • C and UNIX Functions
  • Exercises
• Large Examples
  • Protocol Simulation
  • Robot Controller
  • Concurrent Make
  • Window Manager
  • Exercises
• Concurrent C++
  • Brief Summary of C++
  • Data Abstraction & Concurrent Prog.
  • Summary
  • Exercises
• Concurrent Programming Models
  • Concurrent C Concurrent Prog. Model
  • The Producer-Consumer Example
  • Concurrent C
  • Semaphores
  • Critical Regions
  • Monitors
  • Communicating Sequential Processes
  • Distributed Processes
  • Ada
  • Final Comments
  • Exercises
• Concurrent Programming Issues
  • Message Passing
  • Deadlock
  • Maximizing Concurrency
  • Polling
  • Exercises
• Discrete Event Simulation
  • The Process-Inter. Model of Sim.
  • A Two-Stage Queueing Network
  • Structure of The Simulation Program
  • Process Implementations
  • A Feedback Queueing Network
  • Extensions and Modifications
• Appendix A: Concurrent C Reference Manual
  • Keywords
  • Processes and Process Interaction
  • Process Types & Trans. Declarations
  • Process Bodies
  • Process Creation
  • Process Types And Ids
  • Transaction Pointers
  • Transaction Calls
  • Accept Statements
  • Delay Statements
  • Select Statements
  • Preprocessor
  • Library Functions
  • Syntax Summary
• Appendix B: Concurrent C: Design and Implementation
  • Design
  • Implementation Overview
• Appendix C: Comparison with Conc. Programming in Ada
  • Terminology
  • The Rendezvous Model
  • An Example
  • Process Parameters
  • Process Specification And Creation
  • Synchronous vs. Async. Trans. Calls
  • Ordering Process Interaction Req.
  • Process Priorities
  • Transaction Pointers
  • Immediate Alt. of the Select Stmt.
  • Collective Process Termination
  • Miscellaneous
  • Summary
• Appendix D: C: A Synopsis
  • Examples Illustrating the Language
  • Types
  • Type Declarations
  • Definitions
  • Operators
  • Control Structures
  • Functions
  • Source File Organization
• Bibliography
• Index