Subj : Re: How to start programming with pthreads? To : comp.programming.threads From : Randy Howard Date : Thu Mar 31 2005 12:09 pm In article , ed@flat5.net says... > Yes, "Pthreads Programming" by Nichols, Buttlar and Farrell, published by > O'Reilly, ISBN 1-56592-115-1 is, in my humble opinion, absolutely top > notch. It is highly readable, loaded with examples that work, and it has > been around long enough you can probably get a second-hand copy real cheap > (but you'll encourage the authors more if you buy a new one). This is why you can't always trust reviews. :-) I have the opposite opinion of the O'Reilly Pthread book. It has a lot of examples, but something about the way it laid out or written turned me off to it completely. I haven't even cracked it open in a long time, so I don't recall the specifics right now. Quite obviously, YMMV. -- Randy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR) "Making it hard to do stupid things often makes it hard to do smart ones too." -- Andrew Koenig .