#fork and deterministic resumption of the resulting process

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Fri Feb 8 08:37:45 UTC 2008


On Feb 7, 2008, at 22:44 , Igor Stasenko wrote:

> And finally, do you really think, that hiding concurrency issues from
> the eyes of developer helps him to write good thread-safe code?
> I think, it's doing exactly opposite: makes him think safe and  
> comfortable.

By that reasoning - how about making the image crash on each  
doesNotUnderstand error? That will teach them! The all purpose  
beginners language C does that, too, and actually goes out if its way  
to not be safe nor comfortable, so surely this must be good.

- Bert -





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