Learning Outcomes

In this free course, you will learn how to:

• Explain the dining philosopher's problem
• Define the role of mutex
• Explain the concept of semaphores
• Define what is meant by mutual exclusion
• List the conditions for resource deadlock
• Explain how deadlocks are detected
• Define what is meant by paralysation
• Explain how threads are used in paralyzation
• Describe how threads are created and destroyed
• Distinguish between threads and processes
• Explain how different operating systems supports threads in different ways