Multi-thread processing apparatus, processing method and record medium having multi-thread processing program stored thereon

• US 6,857,122 B1
• Filed: 12/20/1999
• Issued: 02/15/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Takeda, Shinichi, Yagi, Takao
• Primary Examiner(s): An, Meng-Al T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tang, Kenneth
• Application Number:
  US09/468,490
• Time in Patent Office: 1,884 Days
• Field of Search: 709100-108, 709/315, 714/2, 379/88.13, 718 1-108
• US Class Current: 718/107
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4843 by program, e.g. task dispatcher, supervisor, operating system

Abstract

A single thread program of a different process is called for execution from a multi-thread program capable of executing a plurality of threads in parallel. When first calling the single thread program from one specific thread of the multi-thread program and running the same, the sole call only thread for calling the single thread program is generated for use.

Claims

1. A multi-thread processing apparatus comprising:

a multi-thread program capable of executing a plurality of threads in parallel and capable of calling and running a single thread program; and

a sole call only thread for calling said single thread program, said call only thread being generated when first calling said single thread program from one specific thread of said multi-thread program and running said single thread program called;

wherein said call only thread belongs to a group of a most significant thread (root thread or main thread) generated by said multi-thread program, to thereby terminate in synchronism with the termination of said most significant thread.

2. A multi-thread processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said call only thread calls said single thread program in the order of call from a plurality of threads generated by said multi-thread program.

3. A multi-thread processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

said call only thread is provided with an event queue having a first-in first-out (FIFO) configuration, for storing synchronous events entered therein as requests for call from said threads of said multi-thread program, said call only thread fetching said synchronous events in order from said event queue to run said single thread programs.

4. A multi-thread processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

a synchronous event entered into an event queue of said call only thread is in the form of a record in which at least a method name and a caller thread ID are stored as information for specifying a single thread program to be called.

5. A multi-thread processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said thread of said multi-thread program judges whether said call only thread is needed or not when calling said single thread program, said thread, if needed, making a call by use of said call only thread, said thread, if not, making a direct call of said single thread program.

6. A multi-thread processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

said thread of said multi-thread program judges whether said call only thread is needed or not, on the basis of a designation by the user or of an environment definition table in which the presence or absence of need for said call only thread is described in a manner corresponding to the method prototype or method of said single method program.

7. A multi-thread processing method for calling a single thread program from a multi-thread program capable of executing a plurality of threads in parallel and for running said single thread program called, said method comprising the steps of:

generating a sole call only thread for calling said single thread program when first calling said single thread program from one specific thread of said multi-thread program and running said single thread program called; and

after generation, calling said single thread program by use of said call only thread;

wherein said call only thread belongs to a group of a most significant thread (root thread or main thread) generated by said multi-thread program, to thereby terminate in synchronism with the termination of said most significant thread.

8. A computer readable record medium on which is stored a multi-thread processing program for calling a single thread from a multi-thread program capable of executing a plurality of threads in parallel and for executing said single thread called, wherein

said multi-thread processing program stores therein a sole call only thread for calling said single thread program, said call only thread being generated when first calling said single thread program from one specific thread of said multi-thread program and running said single thread program called;

wherein said call only thread belongs to a group of a most significant thread (root thread or main thread) generated by said multi-thread program, to thereby terminate in synchronism with the termination of said most significant thread.