Introduction
++SILC Runtime Toolkit (SRT) provides useful utility functions for +application programmers. SRT can be used as the sole and main runtime +in any application. It provides application main loop, hash table, lists, +atomic operations, threads, locks, queues, file descriptor stream, socket +stream, network routines, a finite state machine, memory pool, random +number generator, buffers, regular expressions, and many many other +features. +
+ ++SRT natively supports multiple platforms; Unix/Linux, Windows, Mac OS X +and Symbian OS, and all APIs work identically or nearly identically on all +support platforms. The SRT does not have any special third party +dependencies. On most Unix/Linux platforms only external dependency is +POSIX threads library. On Windows and Symbian OS no special dependencies +exist. +
+ ++SRT and all of its APIs are entirely reentrant as long as different +context is used in each thread. None of the APIs use global or static +variables, or access shared data without locking. Some APIs are also +completely thread safe and can be freely used in multithreaded environment +without restrictions. The Toolkit Reference Manual will always specify +which API is thread safe. +
+ +