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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada-Oriented GUI
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"Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net> writes:

> On Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 12:43:04 PM UTC-5, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

>> except that when file system I/O indirectly cause GUI events. Then
>> ordering of the events (output-pending, output-complete) must
>> evidently be preserved when used in a progress indicator.
>
> So you don't see that all permutations of unavoidable race conditions
> in disparate topics (that naturally occur in reality before a software
> design ever existed) need to be sanely handled a posteriori in a
> nonpanicky methodical disciplined-structure way.

I suspect that Dmitry only meant that output-pending must occur before
output-complete, whichever thread you view it from.