%0 Journal Article %1 citeulike:4544263 %A Knuth, Donald E. %C New York, NY, USA %D 1966 %I ACM %J Commun. ACM %K distributed mutex mutexalgorithm %N 5 %P 321--322 %R 10.1145/355592.365595 %T Additional comments on a problem in concurrent programming control %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/355592.365595 %V 9 %X Professor Dijkstra's ingenious construction Solution of a Problem in Concurrent Programming Control, Comm. ACM 8 (Sept. 1965), 569 is not quite a solution to a related problem almost identical to the problem he posed there, and Mr. Hyman's "simplification" for the case of two computers Comm. ACM 9 (Jan. 1965), 45 hardly works at all. I hope that by this letter I can save people some of the problems they would encounter if they were to use either of those methods.

@article{citeulike:4544263, abstract = {Professor Dijkstra's ingenious construction [Solution of a Problem in Concurrent Programming Control, Comm. ACM 8 (Sept. 1965), 569] is not quite a solution to a related problem almost identical to the problem he posed there, and Mr. Hyman's "simplification" for the case of two computers ]Comm. ACM 9 (Jan. 1965), 45] hardly works at all. I hope that by this letter I can save people some of the problems they would encounter if they were to use either of those methods.}, added-at = {2018-12-18T10:14:22.000+0100}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Knuth, Donald E.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/25078a174721fa9e25a93dbc6bcd96c35/paves_intern}, citeulike-article-id = {4544263}, description = {Contains Knuth's solution to the MuTex-problem (guaranteed finite waiting time, but exponential)}, doi = {10.1145/355592.365595}, interhash = {fb59786eac82004ece51ec644d865ffd}, intrahash = {5078a174721fa9e25a93dbc6bcd96c35}, issn = {0001-0782}, journal = {Commun. ACM}, keywords = {distributed mutex mutexalgorithm}, number = 5, pages = {321--322}, posted-at = {2009-05-19 05:25:56}, priority = {3}, publisher = {ACM}, timestamp = {2019-02-08T20:12:09.000+0100}, title = {Additional comments on a problem in concurrent programming control}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/355592.365595}, volume = 9, year = 1966 }