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  2. Semaphore (programming) - Wikipedia

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    A mutex is a locking mechanism that sometimes uses the same basic implementation as the binary semaphore. However, they differ in how they are used. While a binary semaphore may be colloquially referred to as a mutex, a true mutex has a more specific use-case and definition, in that only the task that locked the mutex is supposed to unlock it ...

  3. pthreads - Wikipedia

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    Synchronization between threads using read write locks and barriers; Spinlocks [3] The POSIX semaphore API works with POSIX threads but is not part of the threads standard, having been defined in the POSIX.1b, Real-time extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993) standard. Consequently, the semaphore procedures are prefixed by sem_ instead of pthread_.

  4. Barrier (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    A Combining Tree Barrier is a hierarchical way of implementing barrier to resolve the scalability by avoiding the case that all threads are spinning at the same location. [ 4 ] In k-Tree Barrier, all threads are equally divided into subgroups of k threads and a first-round synchronizations are done within these subgroups.

  5. Lock (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    A mutex is a locking mechanism that sometimes uses the same basic implementation as the binary semaphore. However, they differ in how they are used. While a binary semaphore may be colloquially referred to as a mutex, a true mutex has a more specific use-case and definition, in that only the task that locked the mutex is supposed to unlock it ...

  6. Futex - Wikipedia

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    In computing, a futex (short for "fast userspace mutex") is a kernel system call that programmers can use to implement basic locking, or as a building block for higher-level locking abstractions such as semaphores and POSIX mutexes or condition variables.

  7. Two-tree broadcast - Wikipedia

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    Binary tree broadcasting uses a binary tree to model the communication between the processors. Each processor corresponds to one node in the tree, and the root processor is the root of the tree. To broadcast a message M, the root sends M to its two children (child nodes). Each processor waits until it receives M and then sends M to its children ...

  8. inode - Wikipedia

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    NTFS has a master file table (MFT) storing files in a B-tree. Each entry has a "fileID", analogous to the inode number, that uniquely refers to this entry. [25] The three timestamps, a device ID, attributes, reference count, and file sizes are found in the entry, but unlike in POSIX the permissions are expressed through a different API. [26]

  9. Computation tree logic - Wikipedia

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    Computation tree logic (CTL) is a branching-time logic, meaning that its model of time is a tree-like structure in which the future is not determined; there are different paths in the future, any one of which might be an actual path that is realized.