[Full-disclosure] [Code-Crunchers] a simple race condition and how you'd solve it

[silky]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Gadi Evron<ge at linuxbox.org> wrote:
> A friend recently demonstrated on his blog a simple race condition he
> encountered. He also challenged folks to solve the problem.
>
> http://www.algorithm.co.il/blogs/index.php/programming/a-simple-race-condition/
>
> There's an interesting discussion in the comments which is worth a quick
> read.
>
> Also, maybe someone here will come up with a cuter idea?

Posted my proposed solution in the comments, but will probably take a
while to be moderated.

Basically, you just need to check if you should still be computing,
and, at the end of computation, if your data is still "wanted".


>        Gadi.
> --
> Gadi Evron,
> ge at linuxbox.org.
>
> Blog: http://gevron.livejournal.com/

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