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Preventing Buffer Race Conditions
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Preventing Buffer Race Conditions

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Problem

How do you prevent race conditions when sharing a buffer between a main loop and an interrupt handler?

Implement process_buffer(capacity, operations) to simulate a bounded single-producer, single-consumer ring buffer. Each operation is ['write', value] or ['read']; return True or False for writes and the consumed integer or None for reads. Writes to a full buffer and reads from an empty buffer must fail without corrupting existing data.

Constraints

  • 1 <= capacity <= 10^4
  • 1 <= operations.length <= 10^5
  • Each operation is either ['write', value] or ['read']
  • write values are integers
  • Operations are presented in the order in which the producer and consumer access the buffer

Function Signature

def process_buffer(capacity, operations):
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