Week 6

This is my brain dump for this week on things I learned, tech-related or otherwise.

Tech

• unix offers best effort sleep system calls, where the amount of time you sleep for might not be exactly the time you pass to the function. This is because the cpu is shared and different threads might steal the cpu which throws off the sleep time for the sleeping thread. Using pthread_cond_timedwait which utilizes conditional variables and mutex locks for an alarm clock like mechanism which will wake the calling thread at the time given through event based locks.

Otherwise