From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Format string bugs & race conditions
Date: 17 Oct 2004 12:11:38 -0500
Date: 2004-10-17T12:11:38-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BzvBPrqMnrDa@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1097990937.246146@yasure
In article <1097990937.246146@yasure>, Benjamin Ketcham <bketcham@drizzle.com> writes:
> Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com> wrote:
>> Hans Van den Eynden wrote:
>>
>>> In C/C++ there is a major problem with "Format string bugs" & "race
>>> conditions". Can this appear in ada??? and if soo how??
>>
>> How can you have race conditions in a sequential language?
>
> Easy: have more than one process/thread accessing the same resources.
> Same as with a "non-sequential language".
> Note that while the language may have no concept of concurrency,
> as with C, it can still be used to write an OS or thread library
> which does implement (simulated) concurrency.
On a multiprocessor system that concurrency might not just be simulated.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-17 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-16 9:28 Format string bugs & race conditions Hans Van den Eynden
2004-10-16 13:26 ` Stephen Leake
2004-10-16 15:09 ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-16 17:55 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-17 5:28 ` Benjamin Ketcham
2004-10-17 9:14 ` Martin Dowie
2004-10-17 19:18 ` Benjamin Ketcham
2004-10-17 22:41 ` Martin Dowie
2004-10-18 7:57 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2004-10-19 16:20 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-10-17 12:28 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-10-17 17:28 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-17 17:11 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2004-10-18 0:24 ` Jeffrey Carter
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