From owner-freebsd-arch Fri May 19 12:57:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from prism.flugsvamp.com (cb58709-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.17.241.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 103C737BFEC; Fri, 19 May 2000 12:57:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlemon@flugsvamp.com) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by prism.flugsvamp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA10743; Fri, 19 May 2000 15:00:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jlemon) Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 15:00:47 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon To: Chuck Paterson Cc: Mike Smith , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD* mutex summary Message-ID: <20000519150047.F66114@prism.flugsvamp.com> References: <200005191951.NAA11660@berserker.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200005191951.NAA11660@berserker.bsdi.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 01:51:05PM -0600, Chuck Paterson wrote: > I believe in that in general inheritance and lending are > use interchangeably. That's not true either. I think inheritance > is in general used to describe both situations. The following quote > from a Inside Solaris by Jim Mauro. I believe they are interchangable terms for the same thing, with "priority inheritance" being most widely used. Vahalia's text, for example, treats them this way. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message