Sleeping Barber Problem Definition

noun

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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Origin of Sleeping Barber Problem

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

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