Subj : Re: How to start programming with pthreads?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Torsten Robitzki
Date : Tue Mar 22 2005 07:03 pm

> The reviews on this book on amazon are rather bad. Are there any
> alternatives??
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201633922/qid=1111490419/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-8329184-9285627?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

I've read the book and I recommend it. Someone else pointed out that on 
amazon.uk the reviews rate the book far better, the same is true for the 
german amazon site.

For the first review one the site that you have linked: the book from 
Stevens is quit good and covers a little bit about threading. But when 
you see that Stevens write some wrappers around pthread functions to 
introduce an errno like global error state variable, you will get that 
Stevens don't got what threading is all about. And maybe this is true 
for the review author too ;-)

regards Torsten

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