On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Andrea Scarpino wrote:

On 06/07/2009, Evangelos Foutras wrote:

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Email sent. LOL. we did this AGAIN!! :D

-- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

I had a feeling that one or more other TUs would respond at the same time as me. Problem is, you can't really predict or prevent this kind of race conditions. Good thing one of the passwords Todd has received will work. :) Cheers. ^-^

2009/7/6 Dieter Plaetinck :

Surely you can. use e-mail to lock a mutex.

That's the "volleyball technique". The first that shouts "MINE!!!" gets the ball ;)

On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 08:15:05 +1930 Angel Velásquez wrote:

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:11 AM, bardo wrote:

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2009/7/6 Dieter Plaetinck :

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Surely you can. use e-mail to lock a mutex.

That's the "volleyball technique". The first that shouts "MINE!!!" gets the ball ;)

Hahaha, in this side of the continent is the "baseball technique" :D (anyway sorry for the off-topic)

All I can say is bash and foutrelis are too efficient :D

Fast != efficient. I think they do a lot of context switching. Also look at all the overhead they've created... ;-) Dieter