There really is a University of Wollongong. The Wollong Group was a
Unix team in the 70s.

It a coal and steel port city about 50 miles south.

And the sprig of Wattle indeed goes to Gorka.

brucee

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Eric Van Hensbergen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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/[email protected]/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 <[email protected]> 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" <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> let's call it rumba and go on....
>
>

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