Outline for April 16, 2008

Reading: Text, §4.1, 4.3, 4.5, 4.6

  1. Greetings and felicitations!
  2. Critical section problem
    1. What a critical section is
    2. Requirements to a solution
    3. Sample solutions to 2-process critical section problem
  3. Synchronization primitives
    1. Example: semaphores
    to be continued
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