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Reputation: 76949
Testing concurrent data structures
How can you practically test a synchronized data structure (in C)?
Firing a couple of threads and have them compete for access to the structure for a while to see if anything goes wrong doesn't sound very safe.
EDIT in response to comments: I mean that there are several threads running functions that operate on the same set of data, with some kind of synchronization strategy (flags/semaphores/lock-free CAS/etc) to presumably eliminate race conditions and deadlocks. The problem is programatically testing for the correct synchronization of the workers.
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