On 12/30/13 8:46 PM, Christian Ohler wrote:
To address the last sentence – bounded channels with default size 0 _do_ minimize the fallout of this design: The program would reliably deadlock every time it is tested with a nonzero number of images, since A will try to write to "Images" while B is blocked receiving from "Done", not listening on "Images" yet. I don't see this deadlock as a nasty hazard – the code wouldn't work at all, and the programmer would immediately notice. If the programmer uses a non-zero buffer size for the channel, it's a magic number that they came up with, so they should know to test inputs around that magnitude.
I suspect a lot of programmers in systems with bounded channels just come up with some round number (like 10) and forget about it. Similar to the argument to listen(2)...
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