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Re: Threads and statics

From Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Threads and statics
Date 2011-04-09 18:15 +0200
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On 09/04/2011 18:08, Stefan Ram allegedly wrote:
>    I have little knowledge about multithreading, but from this
>    it seems that one can avoid deadlocks as long as one can
>    avoid situations where more than one resource needs to be
>    obtained for exclusive access at the same time.

That's a tautology. But there *are* cases where you need exclusive 
access to more than one resource at the same time. The very fact that 
multi-threaded programs exists proves one can avoid deadlocks in such 
cases -- no need to look any further.

>    For example,
>    a program was written by experts in multithreading and then
>    showed a deadlock the first time after several years of use.

Beware of the "experts"!

-- 
DF.
An escaped convict once said to me:
"Alcatraz is the place to be"

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