#fork and deterministic resumption of the resulting process

Michael van der Gulik mikevdg at gmail.com
Thu Feb 7 00:31:06 UTC 2008


On 2/7/08, Yoshiki Ohshima <yoshiki at vpri.org> wrote:
>   Michael,
>
> > I think that people are now just saying rubbish to provoke a
> > reaction. I wouldn't bother replying.
>
>   Wow, does this "people" include yourself?  What was this email
> about?
>
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-February/125110.html
>
>   You apologized for making a provoking comment there.  Why again?


It was not intended to be a provoking comment.

>
>   And yes, as Andreas wrote, I don't think you understand the problem


I understand the problem and his fix.

>   BTW, you apologized for making a direct comment but didn't mention
> that claiming Andreas' code was buggy and incorrect was wrong.  Is
> that still so?


Andreas is a great programmer, but the example he posted had a bug in
it and the proposed fix was incorrect.

I'll continue this discussion after I've released a stable,
multi-threaded VM in which Andreas's example breaks.

Gulik.

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