Last night between sleep and wake I deduced the server in the beta version of my thesis system is not thread safe. I used a list structure between two processes. Some of the assumptions I made seemed reasonable, and they work.... on a single processor machine. In my mind's eye, I picture the processes running in tandem on a dual processor machine and I know it will break. I need to change the list implementation to a non-blocking list, then everything should be fine. There are some other potential problems, but I think for a beta version they can be forgiven.
Unobtained perfection.
