PPT Slide
Synchronization
- A process waits for notification of an event that will occur in another process.
- The IPC patterns in Chapter 7 were examples of synchronization patterns.
- We will concentrate on just the mutual exclusion (mutex) style of IPC, since it presents unique problems.
- Page 305: In signaling, one process waits for another process to do something (signal an event) and in mutual exclusion, one process waits for another process to not be doing something (not be in it’s critical section).