On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Gadi Evron<[email protected]> wrote: > A friend recently demonstrated on his blog a simple race condition he > encountered. He also challenged folks to solve the problem. > > http://www.algorithm.co.il/blogs/index.php/programming/a-simple-race-condition/ > > There's an interesting discussion in the comments which is worth a quick > read. > > Also, maybe someone here will come up with a cuter idea?
Posted my proposed solution in the comments, but will probably take a while to be moderated. Basically, you just need to check if you should still be computing, and, at the end of computation, if your data is still "wanted". > Gadi. > -- > Gadi Evron, > [email protected]. > > Blog: http://gevron.livejournal.com/ -- noon silky http://lets.coozi.com.au/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
