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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: SMPing libpthread
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terry thet are talking userland..


On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Terry Lambert wrote:

> David Xu wrote:
> > From: "Daniel Eischen" <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
> > > David, I noticed that we hold the scheduling lock before and
>
[...]
 
> Note that I think you want idempotence, not atomicity, in this
> case, anyway.
> 
[...]
> I can't help feeling, though, that this should be seperated
> out.  I don't know how to deal with the idempotence issues
> "correctly", and still maintain a seperation between threads
> implementation and scheduler implementation off the top of
> my head (at least, without changing the scheduler API), but
> I'm sure it's doable, with a little thought.
> 
> -- Terry
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