From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
Subject: Re: Format string bugs & race conditions
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 09:14:05 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2004-10-17T09:14:05+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cktd4r$gnh$1@titan.btinternet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1097990937.246146@yasure
"Benjamin Ketcham" <bketcham@drizzle.com> wrote in message
news:1097990937.246146@yasure...
> 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.
I think you missed Jeff's (non-too subtle) dig at C/C++ as they don't
support
concurrency /within/ the language standard (unlike Ada) but instead rely on
libraries, possibly competing libraries at that.
Cheers
-- Martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-17 9:14 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 [this message]
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
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