Locks
The mutual exclusion is a very important utility needed in multithreaded programs. You will study locks in this lesson, that serve this purpose.
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Beyond thread creation and join, probably the next most useful set of functions provided by the POSIX threads library are those for providing mutual exclusion to a critical section via locks. The most basic pair of routines to use for this purpose is provided by the following:
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