>Advantages of process cooperation
–Information sharing
–Computation speed-up
–Modularity
–Convenience
>Independent process cannot affect/be affected by the execution of another process, cooperating ones can
>Issues
–Communication
–Avoid processes getting into each other’s way
–Ensure proper sequencing when there are dependencies
>Common paradigm: producer-consumer
–unbounded-buffer - no practical limit on the size of the buffer
–bounded-buffer - assumes fixed buffer size
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