March 2003
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
27h 17m
English
The critical region construct, in itself, has no way of enforcing modularity and a program might be structured as shown in Figure 12.3. That is, critical region statements performing operations on the shared data, may be dispersed through-out the program. Therefore, if one wanted to check how a particular piece of shared data is used, the programmer would have to go through the entire program to find all the critical regions related to that shared data.

A solution to this problem is to use a monitor, where a monitor has the structure of an abstract data object. ...