In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on
10/27/2006
at 09:21 AM, "Craddock, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I don't think he did. If you widen the definition of reentrant to
>include all external data then all bets are off.
That was part and parcel of the original definition. OS/360 was full
of code that needed serialization for, e.g., the command queue.
>I would argue that such a program is just badly designed no matter
>what purported attributes it has.
Then you'll need to abandon any sort of shared data. I can't imagine
how you would write a serious operating system without serialization.
>It is a bit much to expect miracles when the program violates
>serialization rules.
It is a bit much to suggest that anybody wrote anything remotely
similar to that.
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