> months ago, i did test an example on the system that "just works", by the way, > and it did fail. it often takes a few attempts for it to fail, > because it depends on scheduling (often the system completes the clunk before > returning to the original process), but there's nothing to stop it failing > immediately.
:-) had a bit of hardware with a race that mostly worked. mean time to failure for a single unit was ~40 days. unfortunately, there wasn't just one, there were 1000. - erik
