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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Format string bugs & race conditions
Date: 17 Oct 2004 12:11:38 -0500
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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.