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drcode on June 21, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Chasing the DAO Attacker’s Wake – A second exploit

I suspect we'll see something like mutexes in the next ethereum EVM revision.

vessenes on June 22, 2016 [–]

Yes, that would be a kind and fine thing to do, or at least change the cost of a specially designated bool argument to something cheap. You get one per contract, kind of thing. Or you pay on deployment.

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