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OTS11 — Resume check - what state must be stored for each thread?

  • Key: OTS11-9
  • Legacy Issue Number: 3306
  • Status: open  
  • Source: IONA ( Derek Thomson)
  • Summary:

    On page 10-40 of the OTS specification appears a description of the
    checking to be performed on a Current::resume operation if checked
    transactions are implemented.

    Resume Check

    Before allowing a client or object to associate a transaction context
    with its thread of
    control, a check is made to ensure that this transaction context was
    previously
    associated with the execution environment of the thread. This would be
    true if the
    thread either created the transaction or received it in a
    transactional operation.

    Does this means that an unrestricted amount of state must be retained
    for the lifetime of each thread? That is, do all the transactions ever
    created in a thread, and all the transactions ever received in a
    transactional operation handled by that thread need to be stored so that
    the Control argument to "resume" can be compared against each of them to
    implement the check?

    That can't be the case, but it that's how I'm interpreting it. What is
    this really trying to say?

  • Reported: OTS 1.0b1 — Wed, 9 Feb 2000 05:00 GMT
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT