SRC Research Report 27

Concurrent Reading and Writing of Clocks.

Leslie Lamport

As an exercise in synchronization without mutual exclusion, algorithms are developed to implement both a monotonic and a cyclic multiple-word clock that is updated by one process and read by one or more other processes.

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