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From: boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Deadlock in rpc interprocess communication
Keywords: RPC, asynchron RPC, deadlock
Message-ID: <1834@necisa.ho.necisa.oz>
Date: 23 Aug 90 00:08:47 GMT
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Organization: NEC Information Systems Australia Pty. Ltd.
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You've got a circular wait scenario and that'll almost guarantee deadlock.

Choose a better algorithm.


Boyd Roberts			boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au

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