{"id":8037,"date":"2004-10-11T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/11\/secure-programmer-prevent-race-conditions\/"},"modified":"2005-04-17T07:37:45","modified_gmt":"2005-04-17T04:37:45","slug":"secure-programmer-prevent-race-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/11\/secure-programmer-prevent-race-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Secure programmer: Prevent race conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"\"\/IBM developerWorks<\/a> runs an excellent article about preventing race conditions – “Secure programmer: Prevent race conditions<\/a>“. It is written in clean and simple language and explains nicely most common problems with races. It talks about lock files, alternatives to lock files, and doing lock files properly. It features good examples and solutions are described for several languages, including Perl.<\/p>\n

This is surely a must read for anyone writing software in general and for multiuser or mutlitasking systems in particular.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

IBM developerWorks runs an excellent article about preventing race conditions – “Secure programmer: Prevent race conditions“. It is written in clean and simple language and explains nicely most common problems with races. It talks about lock files, alternatives to lock files, and doing lock files properly. It features good examples and solutions are described for … Continue reading Secure programmer: Prevent race conditions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,62],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24721,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/11\/latency-numbers-every-programmer-should-know\/","url_meta":{"origin":8037,"position":0},"title":"Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 11, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm saving this here for current and future generations of programmers: This is a copy-paste of this gist, referenced from this blog post. 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