6/22    Technical question:  My friend is trying to program a
        single-threaded signal based server.  He's using the icc compiler
        on 64-bit linux.  However, the following problem comes up.  The
        server is working and calls malloc.  Malloc grabs the allocation
        mutex (thread-safe!), then a signal comes in.  The signal
        interrupts malloc and calls the handler function.  The handler
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5/12    nCircle is looking for an experienced software engineer.  See
        /csua/pub/jobs/nCircle.sweng
        \_ so I have been doing java, and I still believe I'm an expert
           c/c++ programmer.  However, if you ask me what are
           the printf format parameters, I doubt I could tell you much
           other than %s.  So I can definitely get a book on c/c++ and
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3/12    What's the simplest way to add a mutex to C function?  I understand
        threading issues, but something is munging data in my sockets, and I
        want to guarantee that only one thread is touching a certain array at
        a time.  TIA.
        \_ How nice.  Why don't you learn how to format instead of waiting
           for one of our poor OCD inflicted nerds to do it for you?
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9/10    OpenBSD 3.3 semaphore patch (earlier versions are not affected):
        http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-security-announce&m=106323655917088&w=2
        ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.3/common/003_sysvsem.patch
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1/4     critical section, mutex, semaphore, monitor
        can anyone give a quick differentiation of them?
        \_ google can. try it. http://www.google.com you can use a computer
           to access it. -ali
           \_ http://www.google.com Command not found.
        \_ you taking the GRE? If you don't know what they are at this point,
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12/2    Another pthreads question. I need to create two threads and
        a shared mutex in my program. In some cases I can create the
        first thread and the mutex, but I have problems with the
        second call to pthread_create. If I use the mutex_destroy
        at this point, my first thread doesn't like it. Is there a
        way to kill (stop) a thread that I've created?
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5/19    I'm writing a device driver for Solaris to access our PCI board.
        I want to allow unlimited xxx_open() calls to the board in
        read-only mode, but only one xxx_open() call in read-write
        mode. I tried doing this with a flag to indicate that the board
        is open in read-write only, but what I can't seem to figure
        out is how to match a xxx_open() to the corresponding
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4/34    In solaris i can just edit the /etc/system file to change the
        shared memory and semaphore segments.  Is there an as easy way to
        do this in linux (RH) or is it time to recompile the kernel?
        \_ It's Linux.  What's your guess?  Greatest OS in the world.
           \_ You're getting your kernels and your OSes confused again.
                \_ No.  I'm not.  Thanks for the input though.
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3/4     How do I use semaphore+cond variable in Java?
        \_ no such thing in Java, only "synchronized"
        \_ Perl!
        \_ I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but if you can use
           mutual exclusion to do what you want, use the synchronized
           key word. If you need full semaphores, Doug Lea has written
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3/12    Does anyone have a simple pthreads example written in C I could look at?
        -jefe
        \_ Ya, look on the EE122 web site.
           \_ That more has to do with socket programming than phtreads.
        \_ pthread_mutex_lock(&mutex);
           pthread_create(work);
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