Skip to Content
Operating Systems: Concurrent and Distributed Software Design
book

Operating Systems: Concurrent and Distributed Software Design

by Jean Bacon, Tim Harris
March 2003
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
27h 17m
English
Pearson Business
Content preview from Operating Systems: Concurrent and Distributed Software Design

23.6. Summary of Part III

The model of an object with abstract operations is used throughout the book. Part II is concerned with implementing a single abstract operation correctly in the presence of concurrency and crashes. Part III is concerned with implementing a number of related operations comprising a single higher-level abstract operation.

The problems arising from uncontrolled concurrent execution of composite operations are incorrect results arising from certain interleavings of suboperations, and deadlock arising from some approaches to controlling this. Deadlock is discussed in Chapter 18. The concept of atomic transaction is developed in Chapter 19 and the ACID properties of transactions (atomicity, consistency, isolation and durability) ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Operating Systems in Depth

Operating Systems in Depth

Thomas W. Doeppner

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 0321117891Purchase book