sleeping barber problem

English

Etymology

By analogy with a barber who sleeps while not cutting hair, and whose customers wake him on arrival; see Wikipedia for details.

Noun

sleeping barber problem (plural sleeping barber problems)

  1. (computing theory) A problem of interprocess communication and synchronization in which one process responds to requests from multiple other threads and sleeps when not doing so.
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