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Date:      Sun, 15 Jan 2006 11:36:52 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        prime <guomingyan@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Tiffany Snyder <tiffany.snyder@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: How priority propagation works on read/write lock?
Message-ID:  <20060115113523.O38874@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <1fa17f810601141109u3e3a0586ud3b3cc86ebc6e80@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, prime wrote:

> On 1/15/06, Tiffany Snyder <tiffany.snyder@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Does FreeBSD support rwlocks?
...
> FreeBSD supports sx now,see sx(9).sx has the same semanteme
> as rwlock.

While semantically they are very simila, John Baldwin has a work-in-progress 
implementation of rwlock's in Perforce.  Given the progress he appears to be 
making, I imagine we'll see it in CVS within a week or two.

Robert N M Watson



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