Inter-Process Communication Module Index

The terms listed here are directly linked to the document where they are defined and first discussed. Further discussion of a term may be found by using the links in that document.


A - D

Block

Busy waiting

Cat

Concurrency

Condition Variables

Consumer

Critical section

Deadlock

Down & Up

E - I

Interaction

J - N

Mailbox

Message Passing

Monitors

Mutual exclusion

O - R

Lock

Process

Processor

Process synchronisation

Producer

Receive

Resource control

Resource sharing

S - Z

Semaphores

Send

Sequential process

Share resources

Shared memory

Signal

Sleep

TSL (Test & Set)

Wait

Wakeup


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