From: Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>
Subject: Re: Format string bugs & race conditions
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 00:24:25 GMT
Date: 2004-10-18T00:24:25+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z2Ecd.6291$6k2.448@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1097990937.246146@yasure>
Benjamin Ketcham wrote:
> Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com> wrote:
>
>>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. And once you
> have that, it's a quick slip down the slope to:
Then you're not talking about C/++, but about C/++ with some threading
library. Since threading libraries differ, we'd have to know which
library you're using, and be familiar with that library to answer your
question.
--
Jeff Carter
"C++ is like jamming a helicopter inside a Miata
and expecting some sort of improvement."
Drew Olbrich
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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
2004-10-18 0:24 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
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