Synchronization services
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The QNX OS provides the POSIX-standard thread-level synchronization primitives, some of which are useful even between threads in different processes.
The synchronization services include at least the following:
Synchronization service | Supported between processes |
---|---|
Mutexes | Yesa |
Condvars | Yes |
Barriers | Yesa |
Sleepon locks | No |
Reader/writer locks | Yesa |
Semaphores | Yes |
Send/Receive/Reply | Yes |
Atomic operations | Yes |
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Sharing this type of object between processes can be a security problem; see
Safely sharing mutexes, barriers, and reader/writer locks between processes,later in this chapter.
The above synchronization primitives are implemented directly by
the kernel, except for:
- sleepon locks (which are built from mutexes and condvars)
- atomic operations (which are implemented directly by the processor)
Note:
You should allocate mutexes, condvars, barriers, reader/writer locks,
and semaphores, as well as objects you plan to use atomic operations on,
only in normal memory mappings.
On certain processors, atomic operations and calls such as
pthread_mutex_lock()
will cause a fault if the object is allocated in uncached memory.
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