Thread Synchronization
In the previous chapter, we explained how to create and manage a POSIX thread. We also demonstrated two of the most common concurrency issues: race conditions and data races.
In this chapter, we are going to complete our discussion about multithreaded programming using the POSIX threading library and give you the required skills to control a number of threads.
If you remember from Chapter 14, Synchronization, we showed that concurrency-related problems are not actually issues; rather, they are consequences of the fundamental properties of a concurrent system. Therefore, you are likely to encounter them in any concurrent system.
We showed in the previous chapter that we could indeed produce such issues with the POSIX threading library as well. Examples 15.2 and 15.3 from the previous chapter demonstrated the race condition and data race issues. Therefore, they will be our starting point to use the synchronization mechanisms provided by the pthread...
