Chapter 6 (6.7 & 6.9 only) - Threads & Mutex

• Threads

  • A Thread is a basic unit of CPU utilization consisting of a program counter, register set and stack space.
  • Remaining resources (memory space and operating system resources, such as open files) are shared with peer threads within the same process.
  • A thread is a lightweight process.

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