Path: text.usenetserver.com!out04b.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in02.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!postnews.google.com!t46g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "dawn" Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: What Actually Causes Deadlock Date: 15 Dec 2006 13:53:27 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 43 Message-ID: <1166219607.509830.180910@t46g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1166160839.536968.220270@80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> <1iygh.481770$1T2.240219@pd7urf2no> <1166197429.666785.37440@80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> <1166199821.013345.45090@16g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.51.174.141 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1166219613 19535 127.0.0.1 (15 Dec 2006 21:53:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:53:33 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061025 Firefox/1.5.0.8,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: t46g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=216.51.174.141; posting-account=fLxfag0AAADzmFPc_IBdM-stGY4WCEYa Xref: usenetserver.com comp.databases.theory:160498 X-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:53:33 EST (text.usenetserver.com) Bob Badour wrote: > Marshall wrote: > > On Dec 15, 7:43 am, "dawn" wrote: > > > >>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 > > > > Advanced Delay Line Detector? > > Attention Deficit Learning Disorder? > > Autosomal dominant leukodystrophy? > > Association des descendants Lejay-Demaison? > > > > The web is great for expanding acronyms. Doesn't always tell > > you what you want to know, though. > > Now, now! You are just being difficult. You have to provide the web with > the proper context. Search for: ADLD deadlock > > You will quickly learn ADLD is a "CICS" "abend" error code meaning > "deadlock". In fact, there are a whopping 18 pages on the internet > matching that query and most of them will explain the meaning (contrast > with nearly 6 billion pages featuring "the".) In other words, just > exactly the sort of esoteric jargon the clueless like to toss around to > show they are part of some "in" crowd of knowledgeable techies when > nothing could be further from the truth. I was sure hoping that people would think I was in the "in" crowd--that crowd of folks in business data processing who are old enough to have written CICS COBOL IMS DL/1 code (using TSO, ISPF etc--not exactly sexy tools). Now I'm going to have to find other ways to impress Bob. smiles. --dawn [Of course I just thought others might remember those ADLDs and smile too, which is not what we did when we encountered them.]