Operating System
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Chapter 2 Operating System Structures
  • Chapter 3 Processes
    • 3.1 Process Concept
    • 3.2 Process Scheduling
    • 3.3 Operation on Processes
    • 3.4 Interprocess Communication
  • Chapter 4 Threads
    • Summary: slides
    • 4.1 Overview
    • 4.2 Multithreading Models
    • 4.3 Thread Libraries
    • 4.4 Threading Issues
  • Chapter 6 Process Synchronization
    • 6.1 Background
    • 6.2 Critical-section problem
    • 6.3 Peterson's Solution
    • 6.4 Synchronization Hardware
    • 6.5 Semaphores
  • Summary ch1
  • Summary ch2
  • Summary ch3
  • Summary ch4
  • Summary ch5
  • Summary ch7
  • Summary ch6
  • Summary ch8
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  1. Chapter 6 Process Synchronization

6.1 Background

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  1. race condition:

    A situation like this, where several processes access and manipulate the same data concurrently and the outcome of the execution depends on the particular order in which the access takes place, is called a race condition.