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Race conditions

So I was doing a little testing this afternoon on some Serial communication auto-configuration logic I had written for work, and things that I had previously thought were working kept failing. This stuff is asynchronous six ways to Sunday, so I reverted back to the tried and true method of debugging — print statements. Unfortunately, the delay caused by the IO corrects the problem I had been witnessing. The next few days are sure to be fun as I try to figure out what kind of race condition I’m looking at. Good times.

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4 Responses to “Race conditions”

  1. shoe Says:
    April 24th, 2006 at 10:45 pm

    I recommend utilization of “goto”. I can’t think of a programming problem that the “goto” command doesn’t solve.

  2. Dusty Says:
    April 25th, 2006 at 12:03 am

    So…how much of a delay are we talking here…I mean, if it fixes it…

    Also, is this in that C# gibberish you keep extolling?

  3. shoe Says:
    April 25th, 2006 at 10:21 am

    Ok, solution:

    Since it works when you’re doing print statements just pepper the code with Console.Write(”") all over the place. Bam. Ghetto-rigged nicely.

  4. Dusty Says:
    April 25th, 2006 at 2:55 pm

    Exactly.

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