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Re:Use lock addresses to enforce uniform locking order. Avoi... by lukesandberg on Sunday June 14, 2015 @02:44PM (#9715901)
Is it? Isn't the bakery algorithm a demonstration of how to build a lock, not how to coordinate multiple locks?
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Re:Use lock addresses to enforce uniform locking order. Avoi... by ajarmst on Sunday June 14, 2015 @09:25PM (#9717002)
Well, I was thinking about it as a particularly good example of how common it is for exciting "new" solutions to general problems of multithreading turn out to be cases of a classic algorithm that has been well-studied.
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