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		skydhash 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Asynchrony is not concurrency Locks, scheduling,... That introduce some synchronicity and so some kind of order. But it's enforced on the system and not a required mechanism.

amelius 6 months ago [–]

But if I run "ls" on a machine, and another user runs "ls" on the same machine, wouldn't you consider them independent, even though the OS uses all kinds of locks and what not under the hood?

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