ostep-code/threads-bugs/README.md

Common Concurrency Problems

Code examples from the chapter about concurrency problems. Type make to build all examples.

Atomicity Failure

• atomicity.c: Shows how uncareful check-then-use can crash code
• atomicity_fixed.c: Shows how to fix the problem with a lock

Ordering Violation

• ordering.c: Shows the ordering problem from the book chapter
• ordering_fixed.c: Shows how to fix the problem with a condition variable