March 1, 2024, 2:18 p.m. | AtulKushwaha

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As we saw 👁️👁️ in our previous blogs, threading is susceptible to race conditions. To tackle race conditions, we may use locks and semaphores to manage synchronization and data consistency while using threads



There are 3 major techniques for thread synchronization



  • Lock 🔒

  • Rlock ®️🔒

  • Semaphore, BoundedSemaphore






Lock



  • A Lock is a basic synchronization primitive that provides exclusive access to a shared resource.

  • It has two states: locked and unlocked.

  • Only one thread can acquire the lock at a time. …

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