I'm doing a homework assignment where I have to write a C program for the "Producer-Consumer Problem". The answer jumps right out at me using pthreads and mutexes. However, we're instructed to use ...

I feel like this fits better here than the Programmers Symposium, but I'm amenable to being moved if you guys think that is a better spot. At work we are stuck using a legacy version of the Intel ...

This two-part series addresses the use and misuse of two of the most essential synchronization primitives in modern embedded systems, the mutex (this part) and the semaphore (part 2). Mutexes and ...