From: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 16:03:50 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Clarify description to avoid unjustly nailing students.
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Clarify description to avoid unjustly nailing students.
From Vincenzo Di Nicola <dinicola@stanford.edu>.
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diff --git a/ta-advice/hw1.txt b/ta-advice/hw1.txt
index 39e3f79..784c5f1 100644
--- a/ta-advice/hw1.txt
+++ b/ta-advice/hw1.txt
@@ -86,7 +86,8 @@ PROBLEM 2: PRIORITY SCHEDULING
   DESIGN
     -30 Not implemented
     -15 Malfunctions in corner case (e.g. when malloc() returns NULL)
-    -15 Fixed limit on total number of donations, donees, donor locks, etc.
+    -15 Grossly simplified design egregiously limits generality, e.g. small,
+        fixed limit on total number of donations, donees, donor locks, etc.
      -5 Global list of donations is unnecessary and inefficient
      -3 sema_up() yields regardless of whether a higher-priority
         thread was unblocked