Further reading
The literature on concurrency is very rich. These are only some of the seminal works in the field of concurrency and distributed computing that are related to the topics we discussed in this chapter. Every serious software practitioner should at least have a basic understanding of these.
The following paper is easy to read and short. It defines mutual exclusion and critical sections: E. W. Dijkstra. 1965. Solution of a problem in concurrent programming control. Commun. ACM 8, 9 (Sept. 1965), 569. https://doi.org/10.1145/365559.365617.
This is the CSP book. It defines the CSP as a formal language: Hoare, C. A. R. (2004) [originally published in 1985 by Prentice Hall International]. “Communicating Sequential Processes” (PDF). Usingcsp.com.
The following paper talks about the ordering of events in a distributed system: Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System, Leslie Lamport, Communications of the ACM 21, 7 (July 1978), 558...
