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View Ref-File11.5.13  Threads in MagiC                                          TOS

The concept of threads enables a sort of parallel working within an 
application, and has been known for some time in operating systems 
such as OS/2, MacOS or UNIX. In contrast to normal multitasking, it is 
possible for several threads to belong to a program (or process). In 
MagiC threads are supported from version 4.50 (01.04.96) onwards, and 
are implemented as an application, i.e. a thread under MagiC posseses 
its own application ID. The concept here is based on that of Sun 
Solaris 2.x.

This section describes the following points:

   . Creation of a thread
   . Ending a thread
   . Threads and signals
   . Threads and AES calls
   . Threads and VDI calls
   . Apportionment of resources

See Also: About the GEMDOS   Process functions   Example