"readers-writers problem" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: readers-writers problems [plural]
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  1. (computing theory) Any of a class of problems in which many concurrent threads of execution try to access the same shared resource at one time, with constraints on which threads may read from and write to the resource. Categories (topical): Theory of computing
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