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From: snykanen@cs.Helsinki.FI (Silja Nykanen)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: A Linda Question
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Date: 2 Jan 91 14:56:45 GMT
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We would like to know if there is an exact definition for 
the out-operation of Linda. According to some articles 
"out(t) causes a tuple t to be added to tuple space; 
the executing process continues immediately." The problem
is that if the process continues before the tuple is
created, it is impossible to make correct programs using
inp- and rdp-operations. There are not any guarantees that
the inp-operation would succeed in the following example:

out("T");
inp("T");

Silja Nykanen and Olli Raisa