A basic mechanism supplied by the thread library to solve this problem, is called Mutex. A mutex is lock that guarantees three things: atomicity - Locking a mutex is an atomic operation, meaning that ...
Thread operations include thread creation, termination, synchronization (joins,blocking), scheduling, data management and process interaction. A thread does not maintain a list of created threads, nor ...
What is A Condition Variable? A Condition Variable is a mechanism that allows thread to wait(without wasting CPU cycles) for some event to occur. Several threads may ...
Every RTOS has its own proprietary API, but some also support the POSIX standards. Here's a look at the parts of POSIX that apply to real-time systems. In today's computing systems, it is becoming ...