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Extreme C

You're reading from  Extreme C

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789343625
Pages 822 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Kamran Amini Kamran Amini
Profile icon Kamran Amini
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters close

1. Essential Features 2. From Source to Binary 3. Object Files 4. Process Memory Structure 5. Stack and Heap 6. OOP and Encapsulation 7. Composition and Aggregation 8. Inheritance and Polymorphism 9. Abstraction and OOP in C++ 10. Unix – History and Architecture 11. System Calls and Kernels 12. The Most Recent C 13. Concurrency 14. Synchronization 15. Thread Execution 16. Thread Synchronization 17. Process Execution 18. Process Synchronization 19. Single-Host IPC and Sockets 20. Socket Programming 21. Integration with Other Languages 22. Unit Testing and Debugging 23. Build Systems

Concurrency issues

Throughout the previous chapter, we have seen that a modifiable shared state can cause issues when some concurrent tasks are able to change the shared state's value. Exploring this further we might ask, what kind of issues may occur? What is the main reason behind them? We will answer these questions within this section.

First of all, we need to distinguish the different types of concurrency issues that might occur. Some concurrency issues only exist when no concurrency control mechanism is in place, and some are introduced by using a concurrency control technique.

Regarding the issues in the first group, they happen when you can see that different interleavings result in different overall states. Upon identifying one of these issues, the next step of course will be to begin thinking about a suitable fix to resolve said issue.

Regarding the second group, they only arise following a fix being put in place. This means that when you fix a concurrency issue...

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