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 ===== Email to Professor Alan Burns ===== ===== Email to Professor Alan Burns =====
-Race conditions might still be in my code, because my code is crappy, and my knowledge is shoddy. I have emailed my undergraduate professor - hopefully he will give me some help. Hopefully, at least he would find my story funny -- I know at least if someone send me an email like this, I would love it. +Race conditions [[https://github.com/fangfufu/httpdirfs/issues/38|might still be in my code]], because my code is crappy, and my knowledge is shoddy. I have emailed my undergraduate professor - hopefully he will give me some help. Hopefully, at least he would find my story funny -- I know at least if someone send me an email like this, I would love it. 
  
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 +==== Professor Alan Burn's reply ====
 +<code>
 +Hi,
 +Thanks for your 'story', indeed ironic but interesting - I am pleased to have had a possible input.
 +
 +Deadlock detection is VERY hard - testing will not identify the subtle situations that can lead to this failure
 +
 +Two approaches - one use a resource usage protocol that prevents deadlocks (they exists for single processor
 +systems but are not as common for true parallelism) - two, use model checking on a model of your software
 +to 'prove' deadlock free in ALL circumstances. The latter is a powerful but not too easy to apply, especially to
 +code that already exists.
 +
 +Good luck
 +
 +Alan
 +</code>
 +
 +
 +===== HTTPDirFS was accepted into Debian repository by the then DPL himself! =====
 +Chris Lamb was the Debian Project Leader in March 2019. In his blogpost, he mentioned ''httpdirfs-fuse''. This is really cool!!! It feels like I unknowingly got an autograph from a Hollywood star!!!
 +
 +https://web.archive.org/web/20190731125517/https://chris-lamb.co.uk/posts/free-software-activities-in-march-2019
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