Meeting 22: Thread Synchronization

Today we are going to look at how to manage access to shared memory using a mutex and how to build higher-level abstractions, a semaphore.

• Races and Atomics
• Mutex's and locking
• Condition Variables
• Semaphore
• Building a Semaphore using C++11
• QSemaphore

There is no exercise for today, but we will see several examples.

Links:

• Slides
• Example Code