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From: herlihy@crl.dec.com (Maurice Herlihy)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: fuzzy barrier reference sought
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.160438.10187@crl.dec.com>
Date: 21 Feb 91 16:04:38 GMT
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Some time ago I remember reading about the notion of a ``fuzzy'' barrier,
two points A and B with the property that no process passes B until every
process has passed A.  Try as I might, I can't remember where I saw this.
Could someone please mail me the reference?

	Maurice Herlihy


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