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i seriously wondered if this post was related to ethereum and solidity and was amused that it was actually more to do with installshield.

solidity programs can be hosted on? run on? ethereum. people can and do implement mutexes in solidity. (e.g.: https://medium.com/coinmonks/protect-your-solidity-smart-con...)

what would happen if somebody, in their solidity-based smart contract, called a mutex "ether-rot-mutex". ether is one shortening of ethereum so it's not hard to guess. neither is mutex. rot is frequently short for rotation. also German for red.

if it's easy enough to get scope wrong or cause leaky namespaces in solidity (disclaimer: i do not know enough about solidity to guess at this) then could somebody calling a mutex "ether-rot-mutex" little-bobby-tables themselves into exploiting your smart contract?

i don't know. i don't even know what i don't know in this particular field. i'm just letting my apophenia out to play :)




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