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11.7. Summary
In this chapter, we introduced the concept of threads and discussed the POSIX.1 primitives available to create and destroy them. We also introduced the problem of thread synchronization. We discussed five fundamental synchronization mechanisms—mutexes, reader–writer locks, condition variables, spin locks, and barriers—and we saw how to use them to protect shared resources.