Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, Second Edition (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

11.7. Summary

In this chapter, we introduced the concept of threads and discussed the POSIX.1 primitives available to create and destroy them. We also introduced the problem of thread synchronization. We discussed three fundamental synchronization mechanismsmutexes, readerwriter locks, and condition variablesand we saw how to use them to protect shared resources.