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Deadlock Or How To Hang A Process Waiting For A Resource Indefinitely â˜ â˜ â˜

2014-04-04 17:41

It’s a typical exercise, but we always see it theoretically, let’s bring it to practice. We’re developing with semaphores. As we can see here and here, semaphores, among o… Read More

Creating A Mutex With Semaphores Between Child Processes In C [fork()]

2014-03-19 17:58

We’ve been practicing sharing variables between child processes, but when there are some processes trying to access a shared resource, we need a mutex to make it safer. This time to i… Read More

Shared Variables Between Child Processes In C [fork()]

2014-03-05 17:14

Another way of facing concurrency in the wonderful world of doing several task at the same time is using child processes with fork(). The main difference between fork and threads is that fo… Read More

Canceling And Resume Tasks With Timer And TimerTask In Java

2014-02-05 17:15

We’ve been talking about using TimerTask and Timer to schedule tasks and passing arguments to these tasks for a more complex functionality. Today, we’ll be cancelling these peri… Read More

Concurrency, When Several Threads Fight For The Access To A Resource [ Example In C ]

2014-01-30 17:29

If we’re creating a multi-thread application and we’re also sharing information between the main thread and the secondary thread, or between threads, you must have in mind the t… Read More

Passing Arguments To A TimerTask In Java

2014-01-17 16:49

I recently talked about using TimerTask in Java. Today we will pass variables or attributes to that TimerTask. We saw in the last article variable passing to an implicit or inner class, but… Read More

Concurrency, POSIX Threads And Shared Variables In C

2014-01-14 17:06

A few days ago, we talked about building our first multi-thread programs using POSIX threads. But soon a need arises: share data between the main thread and the recently launched thread, at… Read More

Non-blocking TCP Client In C, Where We Can Send And Receive Data At Every Moment

2014-01-10 17:01

If you are creating a program which interacts with a server, this may interest you. First, we’re going to make a simple TCP client, we connect to a server and it will allow us to send… Read More

Dinamically Allocate Memory For A Bi-dimensional Array In C

2014-01-07 17:41

One of the biggest faults of an array is that we have to define it’s size in coding time. Sometimes it’s the easiest thing to do and it’s ok, we may waste some bytes (As i… Read More

Introduction To Timer And TimerTask In Java

2014-01-04 17:57

Timers are a useful tool to launch a task periodically, for example, if we are connected to a server, we can send status information to avoid disconnections, or launch a cron task, or even… Read More

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Deadlock Or How To Hang A Process Waiting For A Resource Indefinitely â˜ â˜ â˜

Creating A Mutex With Semaphores Between Child Processes In C [fork()]

Shared Variables Between Child Processes In C [fork()]

Canceling And Resume Tasks With Timer And TimerTask In Java

Concurrency, When Several Threads Fight For The Access To A Resource [ Example In C ]

Passing Arguments To A TimerTask In Java

Concurrency, POSIX Threads And Shared Variables In C

Non-blocking TCP Client In C, Where We Can Send And Receive Data At Every Moment

Dinamically Allocate Memory For A Bi-dimensional Array In C

Introduction To Timer And TimerTask In Java

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