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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: More precision about my new inventions of scalable algorithms..
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 01:05:19 -0800
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On 2/25/2021 12:49 AM, Bonita Montero wrote:
>> Think of a "master" process, than can kill a process while its holding 
>> a process-wide mutex. This can be handled and corrected, the state can 
>> be repaired into a consistent state. Its tricky, yet can be done. Wrt 
>> Windows think of the WAIT_ABANDONDED state. POSIX has it with EOWNERDEAD.
> 
> If you have shared memory modified while holding the lock there's
> nothing to fix.

have you ever had to encounter and deal with EOWNERDEAD, or 
WAIT_ABANDONDED ?