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Tag Archives: locking
CIS: “Protecting” code in stead of data
The Windows API contains a synchronization primitive that is a mutual exclusion device, but is also a colossal misnomer. I mean, of course, the CRITICAL_SECTION.
Posted in Common Issues with Synchronization
Tagged locking, synchronization
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CIS: Lock Leaks
The two most popular threading APIs, the Windows API and pthreads, both have the same basic way of locking and unlocking a mutex — that is, with two separate functions. This leaves the code prone to lock leak: the thread … Continue reading
Posted in Common Issues with Synchronization
Tagged locking, synchronization
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Critical sections – of what?
a glass of water
may sometimes have a storm, but
blizzards there are rare Continue reading
Posted in C & C++, Software Design
Tagged locking, terminology
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Recursive Locking Is Evil, or is it?
recursive locking:
winter’s way of saying “yes”,
to summer’s loud “no” Continue reading
Posted in Opinions, Software Design
Tagged locking
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