On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 11:12:13PM -0700, Peter William Lount wrote:
An excellent book for learning the ins and outs of concurrency control - and most importantly the common mistakes - is the free PDF book, "The Little Book of Semaphores", by Allen B. Downey and his students: http://www.greenteapress.com/semaphores/downey05semaphores.pdf.
Peter, Thanks for this reference. Dave