A Science of Concurrent Programs (final draft)

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Did anyone else have Ben Ari (eskimos and igloos) for their concurrency book as undergrad? Fortunately I never had to use "dining philosophers" in any real restaurant situation as we always had enough forks. I expect LLs take will be a very significant work.

I had https://www.amazon.se/-/en/M-Ben-Ari/dp/032131283X

> Fortunately I never had to use "dining philosophers"

I think that was set up as a problem, not the solution, to demonstrate that you can't just take take/release locks and call it a day. (I guess the modern equivalent would be 'synchronized' methods).

That's right. It's the set up for the discussion of semaphores etc.

Did bump into this [0] once though in the context of multi-user communications.

Also I just heard that "eskimo" is erm.. not cool. Sorry to any native Canadians. Hope I won't get the cold shoulder.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dining_cryptographers_problem

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