Topics for discussion

• The principles of concurrency

• Interactions among processes

• Mutual exclusion problem

• Mutual exclusion- solutions

  • Software approaches (Dekker’s and Peterson’s)
  • Hardware support (test and set atomic operation)
  • OS solution (semaphores)
  • PL solution (monitors)
  • Distributed OS solution ( message passing)

• Reader/writer problem

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