Title
Shared Contract-Obedient Endpoints
Abstract
Most of the existing verification techniques for message-passing programs suppose either that channel endpoints are used in a linear fashion, where at most one thread may send or receive from an endpoint at any given time, or that endpoints may be used arbitrarily by any number of threads. The former approach usually forbids the sharing of channels while the latter limits what is provable about programs. In this paper we propose a midpoint between these techniques by extending a proof system based on separation logic to allow sharing of endpoints. We identify two independent mechanisms for supporting sharing: an extension of fractional shares to endpoints, and a new technique based on what we call reflexive ownership transfer. We demonstrate on a number of examples that a linear treatment of sharing is possible.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.4204/EPTCS.104.3
ELECTRONIC PROCEEDINGS IN THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE
Field
DocType
Issue
Separation logic,Programming language,Midpoint,Computer science,Communication channel,Theoretical computer science,Thread (computing)
Journal
104
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2075-2180
1
0.35
References 
Authors
16
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Étienne Lozes112114.32
Jules Villard2664.62