find it useful to synchronize access to subroutines. You may be
accessing a singular machine resource (perhaps a vector processor), or
find it easier to serialize calls to a particular subroutine than to
-have a set of locks and sempahores.
+have a set of locks and semaphores.
One of the additions to Perl 5.005 is subroutine attributes. The
Thread package uses these to provide several flavors of
A complete thread tutorial could fill a book (and has, many times),
but this should get you well on your way. The final authority on how
-Perl's threads behave is the documention bundled with the Perl
+Perl's threads behave is the documentation bundled with the Perl
distribution, but with what we've covered in this article, you should
be well on your way to becoming a threaded Perl expert.
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Tanenbaum, Andrew S. Distributed Operating Systems. Prentice Hall,
-1995, ISBN 0-13-143934-0 (great textbook).
+1995, ISBN 0-13-219908-4 (great textbook).
Silberschatz, Abraham, and Peter B. Galvin. Operating System Concepts,
4th ed. Addison-Wesley, 1995, ISBN 0-201-59292-4