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From: hummel@m.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: re: slight bug in tasks ...
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Date: 27 May 89 02:36:00 GMT
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Written 11:48 pm  May 25, 1989 by AXDRW%ALASKA.BIT@cunyvm.cuny.edu:
> > /* ---------- "re: slight bug in tasks ..." ---------- */
> > From: Matt Dillon  [ ... ]
> >     Where I RemTask() I should DeleteTask()... since I used
> > CreateTask() to create it in the first place!
> >
> I wondered about that, and then tested it.  You can RemTask() a task created
> with CreateTask().  You don't lose any memory (the stack and task structure
> goes away just like it should).
>         Don

    There is also a potential race condition on the variable WowItWorked.  

				< Lionel
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