Apache Portable Runtime

This book is a tutorial for the free open source Apache Portable Runtime.

Introduction

• Simple example
• Programming model
• Using memory pools
• Error codes

APR Modules

• IO
  • File IO
  • File info & stat
  • Network IO
  • Pipe IO

• Threads & Processes
  • Thread
  • Process

• Synchronization
  • File Lock
  • Process Lock
  • Thread Lock
  • Global Lock - a lock for both threads and processes
  • Thread Reader/Writer Lock
  • Thread Condition Variable
  • Atomic Operation

• Data Objects
  • Array
  • Table
  • Ring - implemented as a macro
  • Hash Table

• Miscellaneous
  • Poll
  • String
  • Time
  • User and Group ID
  • Dynamic Object Handling
  • Environment Manipulation
  • Commandline Argument Parsing
  • Memory Map
  • Shared Memory
  • Portability
  • Signal Handling
  • Misc Functions