From owner-freebsd-arch Fri May 19 13:24:21 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 197FE37B5FA for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 13:24:15 -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 NAA09668; Fri, 19 May 2000 13:25:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200005192025.NAA09668@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Chuck Paterson Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD* mutex summary In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 19 May 2000 13:51:05 MDT." <200005191951.NAA11660@berserker.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 13:25:18 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message