In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/01/2006
at 06:44 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>View this from the perspective of the initiator: RET=CHNG is
>available, yet the initiator never exploits it -- it can't by design
>objective.
You're overlooking DYNALLOC.
>Likewise, if RET=CHNG were not available, you could equally well
>simply DEQ and re-ENQ with EXCL scope.
That wouldn't have the same effect and would be, in general,
disastrous.
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
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