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[Solved] For a concurrent download handler does this create a race condition?

December 24, 2022 by Kirat

As you can tell from some of the comments, multithreaded code is serious business. It’s best to follow a proven pattern, e.g. producer-consumer, or at least use an established synchronization primitive like a monitor or semaphore. Because I might be wrong. It is easy to go over code that you came up with yourself and … Read more

[Solved] why is race condition in following code [closed]

October 8, 2022 by Kirat

Assuming this is called from multiple threads, the static variable i needs to be protected. This can be done with a lock as mentioned before, or in this case using an atomic increment operation which is more efficient. If you are using the gcc compiler it would look something like this: static int i=0; void … Read more