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notArefill

Reputation: 814

Locks used for purposes beyond atomicity

I'm reading articles about multithreading from a university and in one of those articles in order to show that Atomic and Lock()/Unlock() operations are different it says that "locks can be used for purposes beyond atomicity" but it doesn't explain any further. Can someone please give a couple of examples of the cases that locks are used for non atomicity purposes?

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 57

Answers (1)

usr
usr

Reputation: 171178

Locks are used most often for mutual exclusion. You can use locks even if you don't work on shared memory at all. For example, you might want to call a webservice with at most one parallel call.

Upvotes: 1

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