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Monitors: an operating system structuring concept
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This paper develops Brinch-Hansen's concept of a monitor as a method of structuring an operating system. It introduces a form of synchronization, describes a possible method of implementation in terms of semaphores and gives a suitable proof rule. Illustrative examples include a single resource scheduler, a bounded buffer, an alarm clock, a buffer pool, a disk head optimizer, and a version of the problem of readers and writers.
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- Authors
- Hoare, C. A. R.
- Venue
- Communications of the ACM
- Published
- 1974-10
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 549-557
- ISSN
- 0001-0782 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7317
- OpenAlex
- W2131791649
- Cited by
- 1,496
- References
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- FWCI
- 67.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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