From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Sep 25 17:46:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E87F237B42C for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 17:46:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from newsguy.com (p27-dn03kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.232.224.156]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id JAA23910; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 09:46:14 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <39CFF19E.CD689985@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 09:45:18 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mutexes and semaphores (was: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files References: <200009252006.NAA00200@usr02.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > > With recrusion permitted mutexes, people will find themselves > reinventing this for FreeBSD in order ot get non-recursing > mutexes for similar situations. Err... recursability is an option. With the present code, unless I understood everything I heard so far completely wrong, you can have a mutex act in either recursive or non-recursive ways. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.secret.bsdconspiracy.net "I demand that my picture show a handsome face, even if it doesn't look like me." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message