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As one of the important topics related to Windows process and thread, this tutorial tries to explain the details of the process and thread synchronization techniques used in Windows. The program examples also try to demonstrate several 'issues' related to concurrency that exists such as deadlock, race condition, starvation etc. and how the synchronization methods used can 'reduce' those problems.

  1. Intro

  2. Process and Thread Revisited

    3. Atomicity

    Windows Thread States

  3. Wait Functions

    4. Single-object Wait Functions

    Multiple-object Wait Functions

    Alertable Wait Functions

    Registered Wait Functions

    Wait Functions and Time-out Intervals

    Wait Functions and Synchronization Objects

    Wait Functions and Creating Windows

  4. Synchronization Objects

    5. Events

  5. Mutex and Semaphore

  6. Interprocess Synchronization

    7. Object Names

    Object Inheritance

    Object Duplication

    Other Synchronization Mechanisms

    Synchronization and Overlapped Input and Output

  7. Asynchronous Procedure Calls (APC)

    8. Synchronization Internals

    Critical Section Objects

  8. Condition Variables

    9. Slim Reader/Writer (SRW) Locks

    One-Time Initialization

    One-Time Initialization: Synchronous Mode

    One-Time Initialization: Asynchronous Mode

  9. Interlocked Variable Access

    10. The Interlocked API

    Interlocked Singly Linked Lists

    Timer Queues

  10. Concurrency and Race Conditions

    11. Race Condition Program Example

  11. Concurrency, Deadlocks and Livelocks

    12. Liveness

    Deadlock Example - The Dining Philosophers

  12. Deadlock and Critical Section Program Example

  13. Starvation

    14. Livelock

    Program Examples on Using Synchronization Objects

 

 

 

  1. The WaitForSingleObject() Example

  2. The WaitForMultipleObjects() Example

  3. Waiting for Multiple Objects Example

  4. Using Named Objects Program Examples

    5. The First Process Program Example

  5. Second Process Program Example

  6. Using Event Objects Program Example

  7. Using Mutex Objects Program Example

  8. Another Mutex Program Example

  9. Using Semaphore Objects Program Example

  10. Another Semaphore Program Example

  11. Six philosophers with six chopsticks

    12. Starvation Issue

    The Six philosophers with Semaphore Program Example

  12. Using Waitable Timer Objects Program Example

  13. Using Waitable Timers with an Asynchronous Procedure Call Program Example

  14. Using Critical Section Objects Program Example

  15. Another Critical Section Program Example

  16. More Critical Section Program Examples

  17. Using Condition Variables Program Example

  18. Using One-Time Initialization Program Example

    19. The Synchronous Example

  19. Asynchronous Example

  20. Using Singly Linked Lists Program Example

  21. Using Timer Queues Program Example

  22. The Interlocked Functions Program Example 1

  23. The Interlocked Functions Program Example 2

  24. The Interlocked Functions Program Example 3

  25. Extra Synchronization Related working Program Examples

    26. Creating a Single Thread Program Example

  26. Canceling a Thread Program Example

  27. The Multithread without any synchronization Program Example

  28. Synchronization with Interlocked Exchange Program Example

    29. Some Notes for IA64

  29. Synchronization with Spinlocks Program Example

  30. Synchronization Using Mutexes Program Example

  31. Synchronization with Critical Sections Program Example

  32. Synchronization Using Semaphores Program Example

    33. Terminal Server and Naming Semaphore Objects

  33. Thread Scheduling and Prioritizing

    34. Managing Thread Priorities in Windows

  34. Windows Scheduling Program Example

    35. Thread Scheduling Program Example

  35. Managing Multiple Threads Program Example

    36. Multiple Threads Example

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