References

1
Gregory V. Wilson, Practical Parallel Programming, MIT Press (1995)

2
G.R. Andres, Concurrent progamming. Benjamin Cummings (1991)

3
Typical applications which use this approach are the unix cron daemon and the elm mail reader, to mention just two.

4
A.S. Tanenbaum, Distributed operating systems, Prentice Hall, London (1995).

5
O. Wolfson, Locking policies for distributed databases, International Conference on Data Engineering, 315 (1984)

6
M. Burgess, A site configuration engine. Computing systems 8, volume 3, 309 (1995)

7
The cfengine web site:
http://www.iu.hioslo.no/~mark/cfengine

8
M. Burgess and R. Ralston, Distributed resource administration using cfengine, Software Practice and Experience (in press)

9
Cfengine, documentation, Free Software Foundation 1995/6. This is also available online at the web site in ref. [7].

10
O. Wolfson, The performance of locking protocols in distributed databases, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Data Engineering, 256 (1987)

11
A.P. Sheth, A. Singhal and A.T. Liu, International Conference on Data Engineering, 474 (1984)

12
L. Chiu and M.T. Liu, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Data Engineering, 322 (1987)

13
M. Herlihy, Wait free synchronization, ACM transactions on programming languages and systems, 13, 124 (1991)