Producer-consumer problem in [C] using pthreads/bounded-buffer/semaphores Source code

SO, today we are talking about the producer-consumer problem, and we are going to solve it utilizing a bounded-buffer and pthreads. Let’s talk about a producer-consumer relationship for a second, shall we? Basically, the producer produces goods while the consumer consumes the goods and typically does something with them. In our case our producer...

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The NFS Daemons

Ø  If you want to provide NFS service to other hosts, you have to run the nfsd and mountd daemons on your machine. As RPC-based programs, they are not managed by inetd, but are started up at boot time, and register themselves with the portmapper. Therefore, you have to make sure to start them only after rpc.portmap is running. Usually,...

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NFS introducation

Ø  NFS, the network filesystem, is probably the most prominent network services using RPC. It allows to access files on remote hosts in exactly the same way as a user would access any local files. This is made possible by a mixture of kernel functionality on the client side (that uses the remote file system) and an NFS server on the server side (that...

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clock synchronization NTP & Lamports Algorithm

Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a networking protocol for clock synchronization between computer systems over packet-switched, variable-latency data networks. OVERVIEW ·       NTP provides Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) including scheduled leap second adjustments. No information about time zones or daylight saving...

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