30.3. Summary

The greater sharing provided by threads comes at a cost. Threaded applications must employ synchronization primitives such as mutexes and condition variables in order to coordinate access to shared variables. A mutex provides exclusive access to a shared variable. A condition variable allows one or more threads to wait for notification that some other thread has changed the state of a shared variable.

30.3.1.

30.3.1.1. Further information

Refer to the sources of further information listed in Section 29.10.