Online luxury shopping is a cluttered industry filled with daily deals services, online boutiques, user-generated fashion sites, and fashion blogs. But Shoppers want more, especially something that’s ...

A thread of execution is a set of instructions that are managed by a scheduler. If you make a new thread separate from your program’s main thread, a new independent execution flow will be added to ...

Take advantage of the Mutex class to synchronize threads in different processes and the Semaphore class to limit the number of threads that can access a shared resource. Thread synchronization is used ...

A recent malware sample dynamically generates the name of a mutex object by using Windows product ID, lessening its predictability and complicating detection. Malware analysts have had a measure of ...

The mutex code may well have set a record for the shortest time spent in -mm for such a fundamental patch. It would not have been surprising for mutexes to sit in -mm through at least one kernel cycle ...

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 ...

A kernel crash first reported in July for the 3.10 kernel has finally been diagnosed. In the process, some suspect locking in the pipe code has been fixed, but there is a more interesting outcome as ...