From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,892f841b317b302e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Format string bugs & race conditions References: <1c2f5137.0410160128.7ef88436@posting.google.com> <1097990937.246146@yasure> In-Reply-To: <1097990937.246146@yasure> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 00:24:25 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.9.45 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1098059065 63.184.9.45 (Sun, 17 Oct 2004 17:24:25 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 17:24:25 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5378 Date: 2004-10-18T00:24:25+00:00 List-Id: Benjamin Ketcham wrote: > Jeffrey Carter 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 51