Re: need help with linux terminology

kelly wrote:
Hello,
I need someone to tell me the terminology when
I start another linux console. I need to automate
my testing where I run 2 executables at the same
time accessing one shared library. I put a sleep(7)
in my source code for the process to take long.

Thanks.


If only it were so simple. When you say 'shared library' what do you
mean? Do you mean some data that you have declared, or one of the built-ins?

If it is one of the built-ins, sleep(7) simply won't cut it - how can
you control whatever is happening elsewhere on the machine. 99.99% of
the time that will work fine, but 0.01% something, possibly *very* bad
will happen.

I think you need to be looking at mutex's, semaphores or monitors,
depending what language you are using, and the granularity of the
control you need.

Steve
.

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