The cigarette smokers problem is a concurrency problem in computer science, originally described in 1971 by S. S. Patil.
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“We buried you in the unremissive ground.
I went home. Somewhere I heard the clang of a hearse.
You are very far away, dear Lady
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—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
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