On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:18:43 -0500, John Gilmore wrote: > >I have not elected to screen my own house in this way; equally, I have >not reinforced its roof against purple cows falling from the sky; I >have judged that these two risks are exiguous here in Massachusetts. > Probability? I can't resist:
http://xkcd.com/1132/ >Serialization was invented to address this class of problems. We can >make programs reentrant. Control blocks, on the other hand, are and >will remain serially reusable. A minimal requirement for their >integrity is that two dispatchables not access one of them >concurrently. > But the serialization can be inconspicuous. IEANTRT makes do with nothing more than the block-concurrent character of Load and STore, given major cooperation by IEANTCR. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN