Checking Interference with Fractional Permissions

We describe a type system for checking interference using the concept of linear capabilities (which we call permissions ). Our innovations include the concept of fractional permissions: reads can be permitted with fractional permissions whereas writes require complete permissions. This distinction expresses the fact that reads on the same state do not conflict with each other. One may give shared read access at one point while still retaining write permission afterwards. We give an operational semantics of a simple imperative language with structured parallelism and prove that the permission system enables parallelism to proceed with deterministic results.