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Date:      Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:28:10 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        threads@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cross-thread locking
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10402201525290.3738-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10402200935470.23368-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>

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On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> I can't find a rationale for spinlocks; I _thought_ there was
> one in some draft of the spec that I had read.  I wouldn't
> really advocate using spinlocks due to possible priority
> inversion problems and wasting cycles.

Found it.  It's in the Rationale -> System Interfaces -> General Info.
Here's a link that might get you there:

  http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/xrat/xsh_chap02.html#tag_03_02_09

-- 
Dan Eischen



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