Topics in IRIX™ Programming

Table of Contents

About This Manual

What This Manual Contains

What You Should Know Before Reading This Manual

Other Useful References

Conventions Used in This Manual

I. The Process Address Space

1. Process Address Space

Defining the Address Space

Interrogating the Memory System

Mapping Segments of Memory

Locking and Unlocking Pages in Memory

Reducing Cache Misses

Additional Memory Features

II. Interprocess Communication

2. Interprocess Communication

Types of Interprocess Communication Available

Using POSIX IPC

Using IRIX IPC

Using System V IPC

Using 4.2 BSD IPC

3. Sharing Memory Between Processes

Overview of Memory Sharing

POSIX Shared Memory Operations

IRIX Shared Memory Arenas

System V Shared Memory Functions

4. Mutual Exclusion

Overview of Mutual Exclusion

POSIX Facilities for Mutual Exclusion

IRIX Facilities for Mutual Exclusion

System V Facilities for Mutual Exclusion

5. Signalling Events

Signals

Timer Facilities

6. Message Queues

Overview of Message Queues

POSIX Message Queues

System V Message Queues

7. File and Record Locking

Overview of File and Record Locking

Controlling File Access With File Permissions

Using Record Locking

Enforcing Mandatory Locking

Record Locking Across Multiple Systems

III. Models of Parallel Computation

8. Models of Parallel Computation

Parallel Hardware Models

Parallel Execution Models

9. Statement-Level Parallelism

Products for Statement-Level Parallelism

Creating Parallel Programs

Managing Statement-Parallel Execution

10. Process-Level Parallelism

Using Multiple Processes

Parallelism in Real-Time Applications

11. Thread-Level Parallelism

Overview of POSIX Threads

Compiling and Debugging a Pthread Application

Creating Pthreads

Executing and Terminating Pthreads

Using Thread-Unique Data

Pthreads and Signals

Scheduling Pthreads

Synchronizing Pthreads

12. Distributed Process Parallelism

Choosing Between MPI and PVM

Differences Between PVM and MPI

Comparing Library Routines

Converting a PVM Program to an MPI Program

Example Programs

IV. Working With Fonts

13. Working With Fonts

Font Basics

Using Fonts With the X Window System

Installing and Adding Font and Font Metric Files

Downloading a Type 1 Font to a PostScript Printer

V. Internationalizing Your Application

14. Internationalizing Your Application

Overview

Locales

Character Sets, Codesets, and Encodings

Cultural Items

Locale-Specific Behavior

Strings and Message Catalogs

Internationalization Support in X11R6

Internationalization Support in Motif

User Input

GUI Concerns

Popular Encodings

A. ISO 3166 Country Names and Abbreviations

Index