mutual exclusion
81Reentrant mutex — A reentrant mutex is a mutual exclusion mechanism. In a reentrant mutex, the same thread can acquire the lock multiple times. However, the lock must be released the same number of times or else other threads will be unable to acquire the lock …
82Asynchronous I/O — Asynchronous I/O, or non blocking I/O, is a form of input/output processing that permits other processing to continue before the transmission has finished. Input and output (I/O) operations on a computer can be extremely slow compared to the… …
83ThreadX — Infobox OS name = ThreadX caption = developer = Express Logic, Inc. source model = kernel type = Picokernel supported platforms = ui = family = Real time operating systems released = latest release version = latest release date = latest test… …
84Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy — Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, or Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering, often abbreviated SERS, is a surface sensitive technique that results in the enhancement of Raman scattering by molecules adsorbed on rough metal surfaces. The enhancement …
85Seqlock — A seqlock (short for sequential lock ) is a special locking mechanism used in Linux for supporting fast writes of shared variables between two parallel operating system routines. The semantics stabilized as of version 2.5.59, and they are present …
86Le Morne Brabant — Infobox World Heritage Site WHS = Le Morne Cultural Landscape State Party = MRI Type = Cultural Criteria = iii, vi ID = 1259 Region = Africa Year = 2008 Session = 32nd Link = http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1259Le Morne Brabant is a peninsula at… …
87Craps principle — In probability theory, the craps principle is a theorem about event probabilities under repeated iid trials. Let E1 and E2 denote two mutually exclusive events which might occur on a given trial. Then for each trial, the conditional probability… …
88Atomic action — An atomic action, in the context of operating systems programming, is one which cannot be interrupted, either because it is performed by a single CPU instruction that locks the memory bus, or because it blocks the interrupt mechanism while the… …
89Dijkstra Prize — The Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing is given for outstanding papers on the principles of distributed computing, whose significance and impact on the theory and/or practice of distributed computing has been evident for at least a …
90Synchronized — can refer to the following meanings:*synchronization, the coordination of events to operate a system in unison. * Synchronized (album), a 2002 album by sHeavy. *synchronized is an Objective C, D and Java keyword denoting a block of code subject… …
