[comp.parallel] Programming conventions to avoid deadlock

masticol@cadenza.rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola) (06/29/90)

I'd like to get in touch with people who have made written programs
that deadlocked (or failed to terminate because some thread could not
synchronize). What I'd like to know is:

- The language and synchronization primitives you used;
- A description of the problem;
- How you resolved the problem;
- Whether you think your solution might be part of a general set of
  programming conventions that could be used to write programs that do
  not deadlock. 

Thanks for your help! I'll summarize responses and post them here.


- Steve Masticola (masticol@athos.rutgers.edu)