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SubjectRe: MM deadlock [was: Re: arca-vm-8...]

On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, MOLNAR Ingo wrote:

> [...] 'owner' is only meaningful to the owner of the critical region,
> nobody else is is supposed to write or evaluate that field. [...]

this is not strictly true. We do evaluate the owner field (read-only)
outside of the critical path, but only owner==me is being cared about, and
this can only happen in a safe way, within the critical region.

-- mingo


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