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Data Consistency

Provided there is only one writer to a noticeboard and the standard get and put routines are used, the routines will guarantee that consistent data is read from the noticeboard. A writer will never have to wait but a reader will retry potentially until a timeout occurs.



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NBS The Noticeboard System
Starlink User Note 77
D.J. Allan
11 September 1995
E-mail:ussc@star.rl.ac.uk