Contents

• Evolving the UNIX System Interface to Support Multithreaded Programs
  • Introduction
  • Topaz Overview
  • Guidelines for Multithreaded Interfaces
    • Sharing Mutable State
    • Avoiding Ad Hoc Multiplexing
    • Cancelling Operations
  • Topaz Operating System Interface
    • Reporting Errors
    • File System
    • Signals
    • Process Creation
    • Other Process State
    • Summary
  • Conclusions
• References
• The Topaz Operating System Programmer's Manual
  • Introduction
  • Concepts and Facilities
    • Processes
    • Address Spaces
    • Threads
    • Security
    • Files, Open-File Objects, and File Handles
    • The File Name Space: Directories and Path Names
    • Logical Volumes
    • Working Directories
    • Signals
    • Control Terminals
    • Job Control
  • The OS Interface: Preliminaries
    • OS and Modula-2+
    • Exceptions
    • Open Array Parameters and Subarrays
    • Versions
  • The OS Interface: Files
    • Standard Declarations
    • Opening Files
    • Performing Input/Output
    • Manipulating File Handles
    • Manipulating Open-File State
    • Manipulating File Attributes
    • Opening and Examining Directories
    • Manipulating the Name Space
  • The OS Interface: Processes
    • More Standard Declarations
    • Sending and Handling Signals
    • Creating Processes
    • Terminating Processes
    • Examining Processes
  • The OSFriends Interface
    • Manipulating the State of Existing Processes
    • Manipulating User Specifications
    • Miscellaneous File-System Operations
    • Manipulating Process Templates
    • Manipulating Logical Volumes
    • More Taos-only File-System Operations
  • Error Code Summary
    • The OS Interface: EC
    • The OSFriends Interface: VC
  • Running Topaz Applications on Ultrix
    • C Library
    • Scheduling
    • Virtual Memory
    • Profiling
    • RPC
    • The Time Interface
    • The UID Interface
    • The StableStorage Interface
    • The OS Interface
  • Running Ultrix Applications on Taos
    • Scheduling
    • Virtual Memory
    • Debugging and Profiling
    • Security
    • Files
    • Communication
    • Resource Allocation and Accounting
    • System Operation
    • Taos-only Kernel Calls
    • Taos Devices
  • Topaz Interfaces Imported by OS and OSFriends
    • Base
    • NubTypes
    • Rd
    • System
    • Text
    • ThreadFriends
    • Time
    • UID
• Acknowledgments
• Index