From owner-freebsd-arch Thu May 18 23:49:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (adsl-63-206-88-224.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.88.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CD1B37B771 for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 23:49:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA06921; Thu, 18 May 2000 23:50:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200005190650.XAA06921@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Michael Schuster - TSC SunOS Germany Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new api for asynchronous task execution In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 19 May 2000 08:42:37 +0200." <3924E25D.DEB9F987@germany.sun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 23:50:14 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > '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