Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 09:48:27 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new api for asynchronous task execution Message-ID: <392410CB.6B86AA@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005172131300.47945-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
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Doug Rabson wrote:
>
> The BSD/OS mutex code includes a compile-time-selected debugging feature
> which automatically detects locking hierarchy violations. Anyway, using a
> mutex here doesn't add to locking complexity since the mutex would be
> exited before calling the task's callback and re-entered after.
Wouldn't it make more sense to provide an inversion-proof semaphore?
Or is that what they're doing?
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