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Unix Threads in C

1. Short introduction to threads (pthreads)
2. Difference between processes and threads
3. What are Race Conditions?
4. What is a mutex in C? (pthread_mutex)
5. How to create threads in a loop (pthread_create)
6. Get return value from a thread (pthread_join)
7. How to pass arguments to threads in C
8. Practical example for using threads #1 (Summing numbers from an array)
9. Difference between trylock and lock in C
10. Condition variables in C
11. Signaling for condition variables (pthread_cond_signal vs pthread_cond_broadcast)
12. Practical example for pthread_mutex_trylock
13. What is pthread_exit?
14. Introduction to barriers (pthread_barrier)
15. Practical example to barriers (pthread_barrier)
16. What is pthread_t?
17. What are detached threads?
18. Static initializers in the PTHREAD API
19. Deadlocks in C
20. Recursive mutexes
21. Introduction to semaphores in C
22. Practical example using semaphores (Login Queue)
23. Producer - Consumer Problem in Multi-Threading
24. What are binary semaphores?
25. Difference between Binary Semaphores and Mutexes
26. Getting the value of a semaphore
27. Parallelism vs Concurrency
28. Thread Pools in C (using the PTHREAD API)
29. Thread Pools with function pointers in C
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