Chapter 10. Advanced Thread Synchronization
The preceding chapter described Windows performance issues and how to deal with them in realistic situations. Chapter 8 described several simple problems that require synchronization. This chapter solves additional practical but more complex synchronization problems, relying on the ideas introduced in Chapters 8 and 9.
The first step is to combine two or more synchronization objects and data to create compound objects. The most useful combination is the “condition variable model” involving a mutex and one or more events. The condition variable model is essential in numerous practical situations and prevents many serious program race condition defects that occur when programmers do not use Windows synchronization ...
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