By Carl Barnes and David Harms

Summary: Mutexes, semaphores, critical sections, reader/writer locks; all of these things are part of Clarion 6, and they all have to do with the new support for unlocking Clarion threads so they run like real operating system threads. Should you care? If you write any embedded code, yes, you should. Should you worry? That all depends on what kind of embedded code you write. Part 2 of 3.

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