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Processes<br />

InterProcess Communication IPC<br />

– Sleep and Wakeup<br />

» Problem for consumer when buffer is empty<br />

» Solution:<br />

consumer goes to sleep<br />

and is awakened by producer when producer has<br />

added some items<br />

» Use a shared variable count to identify the<br />

number of items in the buffer (max = N)<br />

» Both producer and consumer need to check<br />

count to see what action to take<br />

» And we can get the familiar race conditions<br />

Copyright © 2007 <strong>David</strong> <strong>Vernon</strong> (www.vernon.eu)

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