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Threads in C++

Threads are generally referred to as lightweight processes and executes different parts of a program and shares memory, file descriptors and system resources. We explore multithreading creation of threads with free, member function, functor object, lambda expression, race condition with mutex

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Multithreading and pthread in C

In this article, we have explored how the pthread library in C can be used to implement concepts of multithreading. A thread is a single sequence stream within in a process.

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Semaphore in C

Semaphore is a data handling technique which is very useful in process synchronization and multithreading. We used the POSIX semaphore library and use the functions sem_wait, sem_post, sem_open and sem_init for implementing semaphore in C.