Snippets tagged “race-conditions”

In Java, the synchronized keyword is used to provide mutually exclusive access to a shared resource. When a thread tries to execute a synchronized block of code, it will first acquire a lock on the object that the code is synchronized on. If another threa

In PHP, a thread-safe version of PHP is built with additional constructs to ensure that certain actions are atomic, which means that they are performed in their entirety without any other thread being able to interfere.