From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 5 14:36:34 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA22090 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:36:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from isbalham.ist.co.uk (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA22083 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:36:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from gid.co.uk (uucp@localhost) by isbalham.ist.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id WAA21901; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 22:35:42 GMT (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from [194.32.164.2] by seagoon.gid.co.uk; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 22:34:49 GMT X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199901052043.NAA09607@mt.sri.com> References: <199901052008.NAA09332@mt.sri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 22:34:47 +0000 To: Nate Williams From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: question about re-entrancy. Cc: Narvi , Terry Lambert , Wes Peters , bright@hotjobs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 1:43 pm -0700 5/1/99, Nate Williams wrote: >A 'critical section of code' is a portion of the code that is accessing >a shared resource, which can be protected by using an object lock. Erm, make that "...accessing *one or more* shared resources.", which is why it isn't the same thing as an object lock (except in the degenerate case). -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message