Concurrent Programming

Text: Operating Systems Programming, by Stephen Hartley, published by Oxford University Press

We will discuss aspects of the theory of consurrent programming

General aspects of concurrent programming
- Historical background.
- Applications in Operating Systems
- Race conditions -- motivation for concurrent programming primitives.
The SR programming language
- General features.
- Resources and capabilities.
- Synchronization primitives.
  - Semaphores.
  - Monitors
  - Message passing
- Concurrent programming features of SR.
- Equivalence of synchronization primitives.
- A survey of concurrent programming features of other languages: C++, Java.
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