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Date:      Fri, 19 May 2000 13:25:18 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Chuck Paterson <cp@bsdi.com>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BSD* mutex summary 
Message-ID:  <200005192025.NAA09668@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 May 2000 13:51:05 MDT." <200005191951.NAA11660@berserker.bsdi.com> 

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> 	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'll leave Terry to defend the nomenclature that he fairly carefully 
outlined, since it's a more accurate instance of what I've generally 
understood by the various terms.  The distinction between "lending" and 
"inheritance" is subtle and often the line is irrelevant, but the two 
processes described are indeed quite different and have signficantly 
different tradeoffs.

-- 
\\ 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




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