Chapter 12. IPC with shared memory
12.1 Critical regions in programming languages
12.2 Monitors
12.3 Synchronization at the granularity of operations
12.4 Summary
Throughout this chapter processes are assumed to be executing in a shared address space and therefore are able to share data.
When discussing the limitations of semaphores (Section 11.6), the difficulties in programming low-level synchronization primitives correctly was highlighted. In this chapter we investigate different ways in which support can be given to the programmer. In particular, we describe how the low-level operations, described in Chapter 11, can be made available through a high-level language. That is, the compiler of a high-level language can enforce restrictions on ...
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