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What is the primary cause of a race condition in a multithreaded application?
What is the main goal of process synchronization in reference to a race condition?
What is the key characteristic of a race condition in terms of process execution?
What is the primary means of preventing a race condition?
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What is the term for coordinating the activities of two or more processes to ensure interdependent code is executed in the proper sequence?
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What is the consequence of not ensuring mutual exclusion in a multithreaded application?
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What is the term for ensuring that only one process can manipulate a shared variable at a time?
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What is the primary benefit of using synchronization mechanisms in a multithreaded application?
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What is the term for a situation where multiple threads access a shared variable without coordination, leading to inconsistent results?
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What is the primary purpose of synchronization mechanisms in a multithreaded application?
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Study Notes
Producer-Consumer Problem
- Producers (bakers) bake goods and place them on shelves for sale.
- Consumers (customers) select and purchase goods from the shelves.
- Shelves act as a buffer or shared resource between producers and consumers.
- Issues arise if the shelves become empty or overloaded.
Race Condition
- A race condition occurs when two or more processes access the same global variable simultaneously.
- To solve the race condition, the execution of instructions must be atomic, ensuring that no other instruction can be executed concurrently.
- The ability to execute instructions atomically is crucial for solving synchronization problems.
Critical Section Problem
- A critical section is a segment of code in a process that may change common variables, update tables, or write files.
- When one process is in its critical section, no other process may be in its critical section.
- The critical section problem is to design a protocol to solve this, ensuring that each process asks permission to enter its critical section.
Solution to Critical-Section Problem
- The solution must satisfy three requirements:
- Result of process must be independent of the speed of execution of other concurrent processes.
- Depend on the control/data synchronization mechanisms.
Race Condition - Definition
- A situation where at least two processes perform operations on shared data and the outcome depends on the order of data access.
- A situation where multiple threads access a data item without coordination in a multithreaded application, possibly causing inconsistent results.
Solution to Race Condition
- Ensure that only one process at a time can manipulate the shared variable.
- Process synchronization is necessary to ensure that interdependent code is executed in the proper sequence.
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Learn about the producer-consumer problem and race conditions in operating systems. Understand how buffers and shared resources work and how to solve race conditions.
