Synchronization with C And Linux

This repository contains a set of examples related to synchronization and multithreading with C in Linux.

Compiling all examples

To compile all examples simply run:

make

The binaries will be created in the bin folder.

Examples

Example	File	Purpose
Mutexes	mutex.c	Demonstrates how the pthread_mutex_create, pthread_mutex_lock, pthread_mutex_unlock calls are used.
Condition Variables	condition_variables.c	Demonstrates how pthread_cond_t based calls work for signaling.
Dining Philosophers	dining_philosophers.c	Solves the dining philosopher's problem using binary and counting semaphores.
Producer Consumer	producer_consumer.c	Demonstrates the producer-consumer model in action using threads, a mutex and semaphores.
Epoll	epoll.c	Demonstrates the usage of epoll using the level trigged event notifications.
Thread Safe Stack	threadsafe_stack.c	An implementation of a thread safe stack.
Memory Barrier Usage	memory_barriers.c	Demonstrating the usage of a memory barrier.
Thread Safe Ringbuffer	threadsafe_ringbuffer.c	An implementation of a thread safe ringbuffer.

Motivation

I realized I have been fairly rusty on my C code, especially in Linux. Decided to create this repository to refresh my memory and study different aspects of multithreading and synchronization.