Critical sections, semaphores, locks

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Critical sections, semaphores, locks

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Where can I get information of how Critical Sections, Semaphore and Locks work?
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mr. x wrote: Where can I get information of how Critical Sections, Semaphore and Locks work?
In your favorite OSdev book. Stallings-OS design & Tanenbaum-ModernOSes both have at least 2 chapters devoted to them.
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and we have a quickstart about it on the FAQ
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http://research.microsoft.com/users/lam ... tml#bakery
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