Practical Unix Programming:
A Guide to Concurrency, Communication, and Multithreading
by Kay. A. Robbins and Steven Robbins
Chapter 4:
Project: The Token Ring
This project explores pipes, forks, and redirection
in the context of a ring of processes. The chapter also introduces
fundamental ideas of distributed algorithms including processor models,
pipelining, and parallel computation.
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