Is there a read/write locking mechanism that works across processes (similar to Mutex, but read/write instead exclusive locking)? I would like to allow concurrent read access, but exclusive write a...

Is there a faster kind of TMultiReadExclusiveWriteSynchronizer out there? FastCode perhaps? Starting with Windows Vista, Microsoft added a Slim Reader/Writer lock. It performs much better than Del...

Any real-time scenarios explaining on each would be appreciated. Is there any other way to handle synchronization apart from these in pthreads. How do mutex differ from recursive-mutexes(any real-t...

I am try to solve the following problem, I know there are multiple solutions but I'm looking for the most elegant way (less code) to solve it. I've 4 threads, 3 of them try to write a unique value...

We have project targeted .NET 2.0 RTM (yes, it should be .NET 2.0 RTM, we have some orthodox clients). And I'm just wondering what are the downsides of ReaderWriterLock? Why is it so bad that every...

This seems very noisy to me. Five lines of overhead is just too much. m_Lock.EnterReadLock() Try Return m_List.Count Finally m_Lock.ExitReadLock() End Try So how would you simply this?

I've got a dump of a .Net process that has hung due to a deadlock (the gui thread is no longer responding, and my logs show that some threads have stopped responding). I have taken a snapshot and a...

I have an IDictionary<TKey,TValue> implementation that internally holds n other Dictionary<TKey, TValue> and distributes that insertions by the HashCode of the key to the invidual sub-d...