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From: jeff@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: Multithreaded thrills
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Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:08:25 GMT
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In article <512dad$b4i@dublin.bitwise.net> jbell@capecod.net (Janet Bell) writes:
>The difficult problems are often race conditions in the mutex code.
>If these are very carefully avoided, the rest is not too bad.
>The other difficulty is the implicit race in UNWIND-PROTECT.

What is the implicit race, exactly?  (Just curious.)

-- jd
