Jeffrey:

That was how I took it.

There was a NUG thread on atomicity some time back. Perhaps there's some
insight in that thread?

Insofar a not Semaphoring shared resources, that'll work fine until it
doesn't. Unfortunately, when it doesn't, tracking it could be, essentially,
impossible.



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Douglas von Roeder
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On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Jeffrey Kain <[email protected]> wrote:

> Well, probably the only command GUARANTEED to be atomic is Semaphore.
> Other commands may happen to be in the current version, or were in previous
> versions... but Semaphore always has been atomic and always will be.
>
> > On Nov 1, 2016, at 6:07 PM, Douglas von Roeder <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > LR addressed that question directly at a Summit - don't know the year but
> > it was post-Schaumburg. The only command not susceptible to timeslicing
> is
> > Semaphore.
>
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