off topic: combined output of concurrent processes

[Ed Greshko]

On 04/14/2012 11:20 PM, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
> Theoretically, if several processes (e.g. echo) are running in the 
> background, e.g. on a round robin basis, then potentially I could see 
> random sequences of As, Bs and Cs. It doesn't seem to be the case in 
> practice though. So which is it?

Oh, in practice you could see this.....

AAAAA
BBBBB
CCCCC
AAAAA
BBBBB
AAAAA
CCCCC
BBBBB
CCCCC
AAAAA
BBBBB
CCCCC
BBBBB
AAAAA
CCCCC
[egreshko at meimei test]$



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