CAS is broken

[Dustin Sallings]

On Nov 11, 2007, at 22:39, Tomash Brechko wrote:

> Then this would be it->cas_id = 0;, 'gets' will return current value,
> and 'cas' will do ++it->cas_id; (no need to have MAX_CAS_ID, C
> guarantees no error on wraparound of unsigned types, not to say that
> it will never happen).


	An object isn't reused during a write.  A new item is allocated when  
you begin a set.  The old one is served out until the new write is  
finished (at which point the old one is added back to the free pool).

	I wasn't as worried about the thread synchronization because

	a) The abstraction makes it trivial to add a mutex if necessary.
	b) It's likely already in a mutex (although I didn't check)

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Dustin Sallings