Abstract: | In 1986, Michel Raynal published a comprehensive survey of algorithms for mutual exclusion [72]. In this paper, we survey major research trends since 1986 in work on shared-memory mutual exclusion.Received: June 2001, Accepted: January 2003, Work supported by NSF grants CCR 9732916, CCR 9972211, CCR 9988327, ITR 0082866, and CCR 0208289. |