Absolutely. In fact, it's a class of problems that can - and do - arise on any software system comprising more than a sole single-threaded process that's been l

Absolutely. In fact, it's a class of problems that can - and do - arise on any software system comprising more than a sole single-threaded process that's been locked in memory. Some old-timers love to scoff at the inordinate amount of complexity that comes from mitigating these issues, and will complain that it would all be so much simpler if you would just run your software on a single server. In reality, that was barely true even back in the AS/400 or VAXft days - and even then it didn't apply to the rather more chaotic multi-user, multi-process Unix world.