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Discovering and correcting a deadlock in a channel implementation

Abstract:
We investigate the cause of a deadlock in the implementation of a channel in a message-passing concurrency API. We model the channel implementation using the process algebra CSP, and then use the model checker FDR to find the cause of the deadlock. The bug is rather subtle, and arguably infeasible to spot by hand. We then propose a straightforward fix to the bug, and use CSP and FDR to verify this fix.
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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1007/s00165-019-00487-y

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Computer Science
Oxford college:
St Catherine's College
Role:
Author
Publisher:
Springer Nature Publisher's website
Journal:
Formal Aspects of Computing Journal website
Volume:
31
Issue:
4
Pages:
411–419
Publication date:
2019-07-15
Acceptance date:
2019-06-26
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EISSN:
1433-299X
ISSN:
0934-5043
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pubs:1011764
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uuid:8ae5e225-d449-4ee4-9a42-ff22471e6bfa
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pubs:1011764
Source identifiers:
1011764
Deposit date:
2019-06-12

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