Re: New proposal for fixing race conditions

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Jer Noble <jer.noble@apple.com> wrote:

>
> On Jul 25, 2013, at 5:23 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>
> wrote:
>
> I already posted a testcase for the second issue. Chris has informally
> proposed to fix it by introducing the concept of "non-neuterable
> ArrayBuffers". I don't think that solution will get past the editors of the
> Typed Array spec (or the TAG, it looks like), but at least we agree the
> issue must be fixed one way or another.
>
>
> To be clear, WebKit has already fixed this issue (and so, I believe, has
> Blink), without exposing "non-neuterable ArrayBuffers" to the web.  We did
> introduce the concept of non-neuterable buffers internally, but only as an
> implementation detail, and that detail is not web-exposed.
>

How is that not web-exposed when it makes some array-buffers
non-neuterable? I think that's very observable behavior and needs to be
specced.


> So, Chris's proposal may well be moot.
>
> -Jer
>

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