Take advantage of the Mutex class to synchronize threads in different processes and the Semaphore class to limit the number of threads that can access a shared resource. Thread synchronization is used ...

A thread of execution is a set of instructions that are managed by a scheduler. If you make a new thread separate from your program’s main thread, a new independent execution flow will be added to ...

Learn the core concepts of thread synchronization used to build multi-threaded .NET applications that enforce thread safety and avoid deadlocks. The C# programming language has provided support for ...

This two-part series addresses the use and misuse of two of the most essential synchronization primitives in modern embedded systems, the mutex (this part) and the semaphore (part 2). Mutexes and ...

Has anyone ever constructed a read/write semaphore before?<BR><BR>I have inherited a system where many processes communicate through shared memory with access synchronized by POSIX semaphores. The ...