8 Nov
2004
8 Nov
'04
6:48 p.m.
Adrian Hey wrote:
The problem is simple enough to restate for anyone who's interested. "Provide a simple reliable mechanism to ensure that in a given program run one particular top level IO operation cannot be executed more than once."
No language can guarantee this - all I have to do is run 2 copies of the executable at once... or wven sequentially! Keean.