What is Reader-writer lock?
A lock that admits any number of readers together but only one writer at a time, excluding everyone else while writing.
Field: Multicore & Synchronization
Reader-writer lock in the explanations
Concurrent reads cannot corrupt data, so a reader-writer lock lets readers run together and makes only writers exclusive.
What is a characteristic of a reader-writer lock?
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