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Threads of Confusion

Many programming languages support concurrent behavior through the creation of threads and the explicit manipulation of semaphores, locks or mutexes. The C language seems to have initiated this approach to handling concurrency. C example The following example of using a mutex with thread comes from C Program to Show Thread Interface and Memory Consistency Errors – GeeksforGeeks 1         //   C   program   to   use   a   mutex   to   avoid   memory  consistency 2         //  errors 3         #include   <pthread.h> 4         #include   <stdio.h> 5         #include   <stdlib.h> 6 7         //   Global   variable   that   will   be   shared   am...