Top "Mutual-exclusion" questions

Mutual exclusion means that processes must always execute critical sections in time intervals that do not overlap.

Mutex alternatives in swift

I have a shared-memory between multiple threads. I want to prevent these threads access this piece of memory at a …

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What's the best linux kernel locking mechanism for a specific scenario

I need to solve a locking problem for this scenario: A multi CPU system. All of the CPU's use a …

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Critical Section in JavaScript or jQuery

I have a webpage, in which a certain Ajax event is triggered asynchronously. This Ajax section could be called once …

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Bounded-waiting Mutual Exclusion with test and set

I am reading the famous Operating System Concepts book of (Avi Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, Greg Gagne) edition 9: http://codex.…

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