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<LI><em>From</em>: J C Lawrence <<A HREF="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</A>></LI>
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On Sun, 3 May 1998 19:43:41 +0200 (MET DST)
Felix A Croes<felix#xs1,simplex.nl> wrote:
> In your system, isn't it also necessary to check the state of
> successor events? For example: event A schedules event B, and then
> fails. Event B is started and succeeds. Event A is restarted,
> schedules event B again, and succeeds. Event B is started and
> succeeds. Now event A has completed once, but successor event B has
> completed twice, even though B can only be scheduled by A.
My handling is that Event A logs B, and B is only passed to the
process system IF A C&C's successfully. If A doesn't C&C, then the
log of B of course doesn't exist as it would have been created by
something that doesn't exist etc.
I find its quite common for my code to be logging follow up
(daisy-chain) events.
> Also, doesn't this imply that when A schedules B, it cannot pass
> along data to B? After all, that data has been prepared by an event
> that may turn out not to have existed.
Precisely.
> This looks like a very chaotic system to me. What are the
> advantages that make you prefer it?
Not merely chaotic, but impossible to guarantee either logical state
or logical consistency.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00560" HREF="msg00560.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: atomic functions</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Wed 13 May 1998, 22:14 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00339" HREF="msg00339.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: atomic functions</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00345" HREF="msg00345.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: atomic functions</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Sun 03 May 1998, 16:50 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00446" HREF="msg00446.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: atomic functions</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 06 May 1998, 23:03 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00443" HREF="msg00443.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: atomic functions</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00376" HREF="msg00376.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: atomic functions</A></strong>,
Felix A. Croes <a href="mailto:felix#xs1,simplex.nl">felix#xs1,simplex.nl</a>, Mon 04 May 1998, 17:25 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00383" HREF="msg00383.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: atomic functions</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Mon 04 May 1998, 20:20 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00388" HREF="msg00388.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: atomic functions</A></strong>,
Joel Dillon <a href="mailto:emily#cornholio,new.ox.ac.uk">emily#cornholio,new.ox.ac.uk</a>, Tue 05 May 1998, 07:17 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00557" HREF="msg00557.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: atomic functions</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Wed 13 May 1998, 21:32 GMT
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