Monday, July 16, 2007

About Synchronization

Synchronization


To synchronize access to a resource, use one of the synchronization objects in one of the wait functions. The state of a synchronization object is either signaled or nonsignaled. The wait functions allow a thread to block its own execution until a specified nonsignaled object is set to the signaled state. For more information, see Interprocess Synchronization.


The following are other synchronization mechanisms:

overlapped input and output
asynchronous procedure calls
critical section objects
condition variables
slim reader/writer locks
one-time initialization
interlocked variable access
interlocked singly linked lists
timer queues

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