[whatwg] localStorage mutex - a solution?

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Adam Barth <whatwg at adambarth.com> wrote:

> As I mentioned to Ian at TPAC, one way to make this more predictable
> is to release the lock on *every* function call and return.  This
> provides content enough atomicity to build whatever locks it needs.
>

Then simple refactorings that should be semantics-preserving --- like
extracting a block of code into a shared function --- would break atomicity.
This also places a new burden on JS implementations.

Rob
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