Selecting the Correct Synchronization Technique

The following describes the typical situations in which the various synchronization techniques are used.

• Mutex objects are used to stop two threads from attempting to access some shared resource at the same time. Critical sections can be used within a process.

• Event objects are used to allow one or more threads to block until another thread has completed a task.

• Semaphore objects are used when synchronized counting is required with some given maximum value.