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Processes<br />

InterProcess Communication IPC<br />

– Monitors<br />

» A monitor is a collection of procedures, variables,<br />

and data-structures that are all grouped together<br />

in a special kind of module or package<br />

» Processes may call the monitor procedures but<br />

the data-structures are private<br />

» Only one process can be active in a monitor at<br />

any one instant<br />

» Monitors are a programming language construct<br />

(so the compiler can treat them differently,<br />

typically by including mutual exclusion code)<br />

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

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