On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 04:53:59PM +0200, Artur Bergman wrote:
> 01-05-09 16.32, skrev Jarkko Hietaniemi p� [EMAIL PROTECTED] f�ljande:
>
> > (1) You cannot prove threadsafety. You may run the X test for
> > an hour, a day, a week, and still not see data corruption.
> > In simple cases like localtime the corruption may of course
> > hit much earlier.
> >
> > (2) You can prove threadUNsafety. As soon as you see data corruption
> > you know your X is-- but there's no saying how soon that will
> > happen.
> >
> >> Artur
>
> 1) you can if you have the entire source code, hence we can give up the idea
> of using any platform that does not provide the source code
If I am not being very helpful, neither are you :-) If you want to limit
iThreads only to Linux and the *BSD, I'm not personally very interested.
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