Question

Describe 3 ways to synchronize thread access within a process - provide a snippet example

Answer 1

Synchronization is used to prevent thread interference and to prevent consistency problem. Processes' access to critical section is controlled by using synchronization techniques. If proper synchronization techniques^[1] are not applied, it may cause a race condition where the values of variables may be unpredictable and vary depending on the timings of context switches of the processes or threads.

There are two types of thread synchronization:-

1. Mutual Exclusive
   1. Synchronized method.
   2. Synchronized block.
   3. static synchronization.
2. Cooperation .