Answer by Chris Hall for Understanding pthreads locks and condition variables
I have looked deeper into how glibc (v2.30 on Linux & x86_64, at least) implements pthread_mutex_lock() and _unlock().It turns out that _lock() works something like this: if...
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First, you are doing the gcd() work while holding the lock... so (a) only one thread will do any work at any one time, though (b) that does not entirely explain why only one thread appears to do...
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I had an exercise about threads, locks, and condition variables in C. I needed to write a program that get data, turn it into a linked list, starting 3 threads each calculating result for each node in...
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