Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 23:50:14 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Michael Schuster - TSC SunOS Germany <michael.schuster@germany.sun.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new api for asynchronous task execution Message-ID: <200005190650.XAA06921@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 May 2000 08:42:37 %2B0200." <3924E25D.DEB9F987@germany.sun.com>
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> 'scuse me for barging in - this sounds like what I know as "priority > inheritance" (as one solution to the priority inversion problem). Are we > talking of the same thing here? If no, what _is_ the difference? If yes, I > could probably dig up one or two papers using these terms (we do at Sun, > but that's not necessarily the place you're looking ... :-) Same thing, yes. I seem to recall there being some issues with it, too, which might make for interesting reading. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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