Section outline

  • monitors

    • Monitors File

      The chapter explores the use of monitors as a synchronization construct to address the complexities and potential errors associated with semaphores in concurrent programming. A monitor encapsulates the definition of a critical resource and the operations that manipulate it, ensuring mutual exclusion during execution. The chapter details the structure of a monitor, including shared variable declarations and procedures, and describes how conditions within monitors are used for synchronization through Wait and Signal operations. Overall, the chapter demonstrates how monitors simplify the design and understanding of concurrent programs by providing a structured approach to synchronization.