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...