Outline for April 18, 2008

Reading: Text, §4.1, 4.3, 4.5, 4.6

1. Greetings and felicitations!
2. Synchronization primitives
   continued from last lecture
   1. Problems to test the primitives
   2. Monitors
   3. Event counters and sequencers
3. Synchronization primitives: non-shared memory
   1. Why?
   2. Interprocess communication (IPC): send, receive
   3. Blocking vs. non-blocking
   4. Capacity
   5. Identifying senders, receivers; naming
   6. Remote procedure calls (RPC): call, accept