John A. Trono
Abstract
Over a decade ago, a race condition was discovered in a specific implementation of the counting semaphore operations P and V. Several corrections to that implementation were published. These were subsequently critiqued and eventually the discussion ended. This article will expose a newly discovered race condition in one of the corrections.
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