I am interested in learning about programming with threads. I have heard it is a powerful, but often dangerous, addition to programs. I've studied about semaphores and locks and critical sections when ...

Has anyone ever constructed a read/write semaphore before?<BR><BR>I have inherited a system where many processes communicate through shared memory with access synchronized by POSIX semaphores. The ...

In previous articles, we have looked at the multi-tasking model and we have seen that each task is a quasi-independent program. Although tasks in an embedded application have a degree of independence, ...