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This is a mach_port_t
and used to hold the port name of a
thread port that represents the thread. Manipulations of the thread are
implemented as remote procedure calls to the thread port. A thread can
get a port to itself with the mach_thread_self
system call.
• Thread Creation: | Creating new threads. | |
• Thread Termination: | Terminating existing threads. | |
• Thread Information: | How to get informations on threads. | |
• Thread Settings: | How to set threads related informations. | |
• Thread Execution: | How to control the thread’s machine state. | |
• Scheduling: | Operations on thread scheduling. | |
• Thread Special Ports: | How to handle the thread’s special ports. | |
• Exceptions: | Managing exceptions. |