A recent malware sample dynamically generates the name of a mutex object by using Windows product ID, lessening its predictability and complicating detection. Malware analysts have had a measure of ...
A thread of execution is a set of instructions that are managed by a scheduler. If you make a new thread separate from your program’s main thread, a new independent execution flow will be added to ...
Take advantage of the Mutex class to synchronize threads in different processes and the Semaphore class to limit the number of threads that can access a shared resource. Thread synchronization is used ...
This two-part series addresses the use and misuse of two of the most essential synchronization primitives in modern embedded systems, the mutex (this part) and the semaphore (part 2). Mutexes and ...
MISRA C 2023 has been released! As a member of the MISRA C working group, Parasoft contributes to the MISRA C standard. The MISRA organization had me in deep anticipation for this release after MISRA ...