Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: What's the deal with deadlocks Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 22:32:39 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <23020668-d86c-489a-988b-7b379f34851c@j13g2000pro.googlegroups.com> <575d7b43-51c4-4905-ba16-15fe9b78373e@t16g2000vbi.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:31:29 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="iYQNcHckTm+srThRKCAVyQ"; logging-data="25987"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18dcm2KK8KqoIBcfteumlXT" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051201 Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:3nBLM1J+eSA9OyuyScFeY5tZ3vs= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3115 comp.lang.c++:3975 * Lew, on 18.04.2011 22:22: > Joe Snodgrass wrote: >> Here's how NASA handles race conditions. >> >> http://tinyurl.com/42p2t5f >> >> I searched Dr. Dobbs J, and got ten pages of matches. > > That link was worth ten times the expected maximum value for a Usenet link. > > Not least because it led to http://www.usingcsp.com/cspbook.pdf, /Communicating > Sequential Processes/, by C. A. R. "Tony" Hoare, with foreword by Edsger W. > Dijkstra. I have that in hardcover. Some other interesting old books: Parallell Programming in ANSI Standard ADA - George W. Cherry Lucid, the Dataflow Language - William W. Wadge & Edward A. Ashcroft OCCAM Programming Manual - INMOS Limited OCCAM was sort of a language designed to express more or less directly Hoare's concepts. Hm, I don't have anything on Linda. Cheers & hth., - Alf -- blog at