SerializabilityIn concurrency control of databases, transaction processing (transaction management), and various transactional applications (e.g., transactional memory and software transactional memory), both centralized and distributed, a transaction schedule is serializable if its outcome (e.g., the resulting database state) is equal to the outcome of its transactions executed serially, i.e. without overlapping in time. Transactions are normally executed concurrently (they overlap), since this is the most efficient way.
LinearizabilityIn concurrent programming, an operation (or set of operations) is linearizable if it consists of an ordered list of invocation and response events, that may be extended by adding response events such that: The extended list can be re-expressed as a sequential history (is serializable). That sequential history is a subset of the original unextended list. Informally, this means that the unmodified list of events is linearizable if and only if its invocations were serializable, but some of the responses of the serial schedule have yet to return.
Verrou (informatique)Un verrou informatique permet de s'assurer qu'une seule personne, ou un seul processus accède à une ressource à un instant donné. Ceci est souvent utilisé dans le domaine des accès à des fichiers sur des systèmes d'exploitation multi-utilisateur, car si deux programmes modifient un même fichier au même moment, le risque est de : provoquer des erreurs dans un des deux programmes, voire dans les deux ; laisser le fichier en fin de traitement dans une complète incohérence ; endommager le fichier manipulé.
