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Monitors

Hoare, C. A. R. (1974). Monitors: An Operating System Structuring Concept. Communications of the ACM, 549-557.

Type
Journal article
Intellectual base
Primary research
Year
1974
Pages
549-557
DOI
10.1145/355620.361161
DOI registrant
Association for Computing Machinery
Link
https://doi.org/10.1145/355620.361161
Cited from
computer_science

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  • Concurrency
    • Shared-resource contention and conflict-avoidance structures

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      Hoare presents the monitor as a per-resource scheduler that lets only one program in at a time and makes others wait, so simultaneous access cannot corrupt shared state.

      “it is essential that only one program at a time actually succeed in entering a monitor procedure, and any sub- sequent call must be held up until the previous call has been completed. Otherwise, if two procedure bodies were in simultaneous execution, the effects on the local variables of the monitor could be chaotic”

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