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From: martens@cis.ohio-state.edu (Jeff Martens)
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Subject: Re: fuzzy barrier reference sought
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Date: 22 Feb 91 00:21:52 GMT
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In article <1991Feb21.160438.10187@crl.dec.com> herlihy@crl.dec.com (Maurice Herlihy) writes:

>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.


A good reference for the fuzzy barrier is:

@inproceedings{Gu:89,
	author = {Rajiv Gupta},
	title = {The Fuzzy Barrier},
	booktitle = {Third International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems},
	month = {April},
	year = {1989},
	pages = {54 -- 63}
}
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