Shared Memory Synchronization

In sharing memory, a portion of memory is mapped into the address space of one or more processes. No method of coordinating access is automatically provided, so nothing prevents two processes from writing to the shared memory at the same time in the same place. So, it is typically used with semaphores or another mechanism, which are used to synchronize processes. System V and POSIX semaphores can both be used for this purpose. Mutual exclusion locks, reader/writer locks, semaphores, and conditional variables provided in the multithread library can also be used for this purpose.