http://www.olc.edu/~cdelong/jargon-4.4.7/jargon-4.4.7/html/D/deadly-embrace.html
In the case of 9P I believe the concern in context is waiting for clunks when the server is dead means the waiter will never die. Can get particularly bad if its actually a communication failure with bi-directional mounts where both sides can't exit because they can't talk to each other. Perhaps better explained here: http://www.mail-archive.com/9f...@cse.psu.edu/msg03597.html also discussed between brucee and russ here: http://thedailyreviewer.com/compsys/view/9fans-clunk-clunk-10445370 The CSP/Hoare (University of Wollongong, really, is that a joke?) reference that Brucee made is most likely here: http://goo.gl/DphA although it seems to point to: Dijkstra, E.W. Cooperating sequential processes. in Programming Languages ed. F. Genuys. - - Academic ~.r.ess, New York, 1968 pp 43-112. as the first reference to "deadly embrace". While I have a bit of insight into what brucee is talking about, all of these came from google "deadly embrace" and google "deadly embrace clunk" for the Plan 9 specific references. Its a always a bit of a pain when brucee is a bit subtle, but its more of a pain when people are to lazy to even bother searching. (reading ahead in the thread, which I was too lazy to do before searching, I see that Gorka at least bothered to search - he gets the golden google prize - which I think might be an pickled egg from the University of Woolongong) -eric On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 3:52 AM, roger peppe <rogpe...@gmail.com> wrote: > if you hate misinformation, why not provide some correct information to > counter it? i'd hazard a guess that nobody other than you in this thread > knows what you mean by "deadly embrace". > > On 31 Oct 2010 05:47, "Bruce Ellis" <bruce.el...@gmail.com> wrote: > > good call. i just hate misinformation. if there is any more misleading > trash i will gladly give the offender Morgan's phone number. > > brucee > > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Nemo <nemo.m...@gmail.com> wrote: >> let's call it rumba and go on....
