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The proper name of Apple's operating system is "Mac OS X" not "MacOS X", as can bee seen in many places, for example http://www.apple.com/macosx/). This contrasts the naming of the old operating system, which was called "MacOS" and today is often refered to as "MacOS Classic". The attached patches fixes the misuse of the name "MacOS X" in both the SDL12 and sdlweb CVS modules. --HG-- extra : convert_revision : svn%3Ac70aab31-4412-0410-b14c-859654838e24/trunk%401628
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>Chapter 12. Multi-threaded Programming</H1
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>SDL_CreateThread</A
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> -- Creates a new thread of execution that shares its parent's properties.</DT
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>SDL_ThreadID</A
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> -- Get the 32-bit thread identifier for the current thread.</DT
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>SDL_GetThreadID</A
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> -- Get the SDL thread ID of a SDL_Thread</DT
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>SDL_WaitThread</A
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> -- Wait for a thread to finish.</DT
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>SDL_KillThread</A
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> -- Gracelessly terminates the thread.</DT
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>SDL_CreateMutex</A
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>SDL_mutexV</A
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>SDL_CreateSemaphore</A
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> -- Creates a new semaphore and assigns an initial value to it.</DT
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>SDL_DestroySemaphore</A
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> -- Destroys a semaphore that was created by <A
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> -- Lock a semaphore and suspend the thread if the semaphore value is zero.</DT
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> -- Attempt to lock a semaphore but don't suspend the thread.</DT
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> -- Lock a semaphore, but only wait up to a specified maximum time.</DT
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> -- Unlock a semaphore.</DT
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> -- Return the current value of a semaphore.</DT
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>SDL_CreateCond</A
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> -- Create a condition variable</DT
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> -- Destroy a condition variable</DT
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> -- Restart a thread wait on a condition variable</DT
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>SDL_CondBroadcast</A
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> -- Restart all threads waiting on a condition variable</DT
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> -- Wait on a condition variable</DT
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>SDL provides functions for creating threads, mutexes, semphores and condition variables.</P
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when writing multi-threaded programs. Some good guidelines include:
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>Don't call SDL video/event functions from separate threads</P
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>Don't use any library functions in separate threads</P
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>Don't perform any memory management in separate threads</P
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>Never terminate threads, always set a flag and wait for them to quit</P
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>SDL's threading is not implemented on MacOS, due to that lack of preemptive thread support (Mac OS X dos nt suffer from this problem)</P
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