[RFC][icedtea-web]: possible race condition.

[Denis Lila]

> Have you thought about using an AtomicLong instead?

Yes, but AtomicLong doesn't have an atomic operation for
what we're trying to do. We're trying to compute the function
f(long i) = 0 if i==long_max else i+i
AtomicLong only has things like set, add, increment.

As for why we're trying to compute the above function instead
of a simple increment (and letting the result overflow into
the negatives), I don't know. I will ask Deepak when he returns.

Regards,
Denis.

----- Original Message -----
> On 19:02 Mon 07 Mar , Omair Majid wrote:
> > On 03/07/2011 06:55 PM, Denis Lila wrote:
> > > This is better. It fixes a few issues I discussed with
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