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Subject: Re: 551 warmup-2
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:23:21 -0700
From: Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu>

Someone wrote:

  > For project 2, both servers are waiting on the same condition
  > variable and mutex.  I just want to make sure I am not creating a
  > deadlock

Waiting on the same condition variable and mutex does not
create deadline.

In general, if you *hold* a *mutex* while waiting on another
*mutex* to become available, then you *may* get into a deadline.
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Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>




  ------Original Message------
  From: Bill Cheng
  To: cs551@merlot.usc.edu
  Sent: Sep 16, 2008 8:06 PM
  Subject: Re: 551 warmup-2
  
  Someone wrote:
  
  > 1) In the following lines of the spec, is the gap a <TAB> '\t' or is it 4
  > blank spaces?
  >
  > Parameters:
  >     lambda = 0.15
  
  It's 4 blank spaces.
  --
  Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu
  <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>