Guide to DECthreads

This document, titled Guide to DECthreads (February 1994), serves as both a comprehensive programming guide and a reference manual for the DECthreads multithreading run-time library. It covers key concepts such as thread operations, synchronization (mutexes and condition variables), and exception handling. It also provides reference information for the POSIX 1003.4a (pthread) interface and the proprietary Digital (cma) interface. Additionally, it details specific considerations for systems running UNIX software (such as DEC OSF/1 and ULTRIX) and OpenVMS, includes C-based programming examples, and contains appendixes on exception types and nonstandard data types.