/* ** This basic implementation of Reader/Writer locks does not ** protect writers from starvation. That is, if a writer is ** currently waiting on a reader, any new reader will get ** the lock before the writer. */ /******************************************************** * An example source module to accompany... * * "Using POSIX Threads: Programming with Pthreads" * by Brad nichols, Dick Buttlar, Jackie Farrell * O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. * ******************************************************** * rdwr.c -- * * Library of functions implementing reader/writer locks */ #include #include "rdwr.h" int pthread_rdwr_init_np(pthread_rdwr_t *rdwrp, pthread_rdwrattr_t *attrp) { rdwrp->readers_reading = 0; rdwrp->writer_writing = 0; pthread_mutex_init(&(rdwrp->mutex), NULL); pthread_cond_init(&(rdwrp->lock_free), NULL); return 0; } int pthread_rdwr_rlock_np(pthread_rdwr_t *rdwrp){ pthread_mutex_lock(&(rdwrp->mutex)); while(rdwrp->writer_writing) { pthread_cond_wait(&(rdwrp->lock_free), &(rdwrp->mutex)); } rdwrp->readers_reading++; pthread_mutex_unlock(&(rdwrp->mutex)); return 0; } int pthread_rdwr_runlock_np(pthread_rdwr_t *rdwrp) { pthread_mutex_lock(&(rdwrp->mutex)); if (rdwrp->readers_reading == 0) { pthread_mutex_unlock(&(rdwrp->mutex)); return -1; } else { rdwrp->readers_reading--; if (rdwrp->readers_reading == 0) { pthread_cond_signal(&(rdwrp->lock_free)); } pthread_mutex_unlock(&(rdwrp->mutex)); return 0; } } int pthread_rdwr_wlock_np(pthread_rdwr_t *rdwrp) { pthread_mutex_lock(&(rdwrp->mutex)); while(rdwrp->writer_writing || rdwrp->readers_reading) { pthread_cond_wait(&(rdwrp->lock_free), &(rdwrp->mutex)); } rdwrp->writer_writing++; pthread_mutex_unlock(&(rdwrp->mutex)); return 0; } int pthread_rdwr_wunlock_np(pthread_rdwr_t *rdwrp) { pthread_mutex_lock(&(rdwrp->mutex)); if (rdwrp->writer_writing == 0) { pthread_mutex_unlock(&(rdwrp->mutex)); return -1; } else { rdwrp->writer_writing = 0; pthread_cond_broadcast(&(rdwrp->lock_free)); pthread_mutex_unlock(&(rdwrp->mutex)); return 0; } }