These classes are relevant to threaded applications.
| QMutex | Access serialization between threads | 
| QMutexLocker | Convenience class that simplifies locking and unlocking mutexes | 
| QReadLocker | Convenience class that simplifies locking and unlocking read-write locks for read access | 
| QReadWriteLock | Read-write locking | 
| QSemaphore | General counting semaphore | 
| QThread | Platform-independent threads | 
| QThreadStorage | Per-thread data storage | 
| QWaitCondition | Condition variable for synchronizing threads | 
| QWriteLocker | Convenience class that simplifies locking and unlocking read-write locks for write access |