Hanging threads are a common challenge in the development of software that has to interface with proprietary devices using proprietary or standardized interfaces such as SNMP, Q3, or Telnet. This ...

Multithreaded programs often function erratically or produce erroneous values due to the lack of thread synchronization. Synchronization is the act of serializing (or ordering one at a time) thread ...

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On the day before Thanksgiving 2020, the Amazon Kinesis data streaming service in AWS' main region US-East-1 went down for several hours. The company explained the outage in its subsequent failure ...

Thread dump is a snapshot of all the threads that were executing at a moment in time. It shows the stack trace of each thread, the locks they have obtained, locks on which they are waiting, their ...

This isn't so much as a "how do I do it" question, because that works. What I have is more of a conceptual question. If we take the following statements:<BR><BR>1. For a given object, only one thread ...