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The classic readers-writers problem has been extensively studied. This holds to a lesser degree for the reentrant version, where it is allowed to nest locking actions. Such nesting is useful when a library is created with various procedures that each start and end with a lock. Allowing nesting makes it possible for these procedures to call each other. We considered an existing widely used industrial implementation of the reentrant readers-writers problem. We modeled it using a model checker revealing a serious error: a possible deadlock situation. The model was improved and checked satisfactorily for a fixed number of processes. To achieve a correctness result for an arbitrary number of processes the model was converted to a theorem prover with which it was proven.
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van Gastel, B., Lensink, L., Smetsers, S., van Eekelen, M. (2009). Reentrant Readers-Writers: A Case Study Combining Model Checking with Theorem Proving. In: Cofer, D., Fantechi, A. (eds) Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems. FMICS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5596. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03240-0_10
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