Pthreads’ manpages really don’t cover very much; where can I find more info?

The pthread_* manpages are really, really sparse in lots of areas; for instance, for all I can tell, the various pthread_attr_set* are completely undocumented — that is, I can’t figure out what each of the various types of attributes actually do!

The only oth开发者_JAVA百科er useful sources of information I’ve found, than the manpages, are the famous pthreads tutorial and pthreads-win32 documentation… neither of which helps in this particular case, and many others.

Where else can I go for information about what pthreads’ various functions actually do, short of digging into an open-source implementation (which is quite likely over my head)?

Perhaps the actual spec for POSIX threads would help?

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/xsh_chap02_09.html

I've generally found that if I want to know how something works in POSIX-land, it's easiest to go straight to the spec.

I find https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/pthreads/ very helpful as well.