Re: What Actually Causes Deadlock

From: dawn <dawnwolthuis_at_gmail.com>
Date: 15 Dec 2006 07:43:49 -0800
Message-ID: <1166197429.666785.37440_at_80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com>


paul c wrote:

>

> Back in the 1970's (and the 1960's too, I guess) every mainframe
> application programmer who used IBM CICS or IMS DC was aware of that
> terse bullet list in the wikipedia and were careful to order their
> accesses, whether they were to dbms, file, TP channel or abstact memory
> in some agreed-upon order.

It's been decades, but ADLD still pops to mind whenever I see a traffic or other deadlock situation. --dawn Received on Fri Dec 15 2006 - 16:43:49 CET

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