What is the producer consumer problem? Give an example of its occurrence in operating systems

      

What is the producer consumer problem? Give an example of its occurrence in operating systems

  

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The producer-consumer problem is a idea where two threads exist, one is “producing” data to store in
the buffer and the other is “consuming” that data from said buffer. Concurrency problems arise when we
need to keep track of the number of items in the buffer, which has a fixed limit on how many items can
be inside it at any one time.
Titany answered the question on April 26, 2022 at 05:33


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