.TH "Portable Threads Abstraction Classes" 3 "Wed May 23 2012" "Version 3.1.3" "Coin" \" -*- nroff -*-
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.SH NAME
Portable Threads Abstraction Classes \- 
.SS "Classes"

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.RI "class \fBSbBarrier\fP"
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.RI "\fIThe \fBSbBarrier\fP class implements the 'barrier' multi-thread synchronization technique\&.
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A barrier is a synchronization mechanism that is used for blocking threads as they enter the barrier until a given number of threads are blocked, at which point all the threads are released again\&. \fP"
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.RI "class \fBSbCondVar\fP"
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.RI "\fIA class for synchronizing access to global variables\&.
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Condition variables are used to protect global variables in an environment where multiple threads are running concurrently\&. \fP"
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.RI "class \fBSbFifo\fP"
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.RI "\fIA class for managing a pointer first-in, first-out queue\&. \fP"
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.RI "class \fBSbMutex\fP"
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.RI "\fIA basic class for managing a mutex\&.
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This class provides a portable framework around the mutex interface of the underlying native thread-handling toolkit\&. \fP"
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.RI "class \fBSbThreadAutoLock\fP"
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.RI "\fISimple convenience class for locking access to a function\&.
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This class provides a simple convenience mechanism for automatically locking access to a function that is not re-entrant\&. \fP"
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.RI "class \fBSbRWMutex\fP"
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.RI "class \fBSbStorage\fP"
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.RI "\fIThe \fBSbStorage\fP class manages thread-local memory\&.
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This class manages thread-local memory\&. When different threads access the memory an \fBSbStorage\fP object manages, they will receive different memory blocks back\&. \fP"
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.RI "class \fBSbTypedStorage< Type >\fP"
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.RI "\fIThe \fBSbTypedStorage\fP class manages generic thread-local memory\&.
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This class manages thread-local memory\&. When different threads access the memory an \fBSbTypedStorage\fP object manages, they will receive different memory blocks back\&. \fP"
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.RI "class \fBSbThread\fP"
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.RI "\fIA class for managing threads\&.
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This class provides a portable framework around the tasks of instantiating, starting, stopping and joining threads\&. \fP"
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.SH "Detailed Description"
.PP 
Coin implements a set of abstractions over the native threads data types that can be portably used across all the platforms Coin has been ported to\&. 
.SH "Author"
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Generated automatically by Doxygen for Coin from the source code\&.