Version compatibility in division

[David Bolen]

pj at sgi.com (Paul Jackson) writes:

> David wrote:
> |> Of course, this isn't the best example, since threaded apps by their
> |> nature must be written to be safe in such variations ...
> 
> as opposed, of course, to unthreaded apps, which can have
> all manner of timing sensitive bugs, right? </joking>
> 
> In other words, speaking more directly, maybe threaded
> apps are supposed to be timing safe, but that doesn't
> mean that they are.

Of course not, but I sure wouldn't worry about bending over backwards
in restricting a change to avoid tickling a race condition bug in a
multi-threaded application just due to timing variations.  If the
developer ventured into multi-threaded space, and didn't take that
into account, then them's the breaks :-)

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