Monitors

Goal

• Understand the concept of a monitor and know about how to use it.

Reading Assignments

• MOS 2.3.7 and Birrell's Paper.

Discussions Topics

• What is the difference between Hoare's monitor and the monitor in Birrell's paper?
• The textbook has an example (Figure 2-27) of using Monitor to solve a consumer-producer problem.  How would you use the primitives in Birrell's paper to solve the problem?