Module: Thread Safety

Learning Outcomes

Concurrency

• Understand the general concept of concurrency
• Understand the process and the thread abstractions
• Be able to use threads to implement concurrency in programs
• Understand the thread safety issue

Thread Synchronization

• Understand synchronization abstractions (locks, condition variables, semaphores, monitors)
• Be able to use synchronization abstractions in programs
• Be familiar with classical synchronization problems/solutions

Readings