Group of answer choices   A. list_t is already thread-safe and does not need any locks in any of its operations.   B. Add a lock to the list_t struct, initialize the lock in the List_Init, and then any operation that involves a list_t, lock and unlock the entire function to ensure we do not have any data races.

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Given the following code, how would you make it thread-safe?

 

// basic node structure
typedef struct __node_t {
    int key;
    struct __node_t *next;
} node_t;

// basic list structure (one used per list)
typedef struct __list_t {
    node_t *head;

} list_t;

void List_Init(list_t *L) {
    L->head = NULL;
    
}

int List_Insert(list_t *L, int key) {

    node_t *new = malloc(sizeof(node_t));

    if (new == NULL) {
        perror("malloc");
        return -1; // fail
    }

    new->key = key;
    new->next = L->head;
    L->head = new;
    
    return 0; // success
  }

int List_Lookup(list_t *L, int key) {
    node_t *curr = L->head;
    while (curr) {
        if (curr->key == key) {
            return 0; // success
        }
    curr = curr->next;
    }

}

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A. list_t is already thread-safe and does not need any locks in any of its operations.
 
B. Add a lock to the list_t struct, initialize the lock in the List_Init, and then any operation that involves a list_t, lock and unlock the entire function to ensure we do not have any data races.
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