From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 5 14:42:44 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA22849 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:42:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA22843 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:42:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA18035; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 15:42:02 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA10308; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 15:42:00 -0700 Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 15:42:00 -0700 Message-Id: <199901052242.PAA10308@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Bob Bishop Cc: Nate Williams , Narvi , Terry Lambert , Wes Peters , bright@hotjobs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question about re-entrancy. In-Reply-To: References: <199901052008.NAA09332@mt.sri.com> <199901052043.NAA09607@mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >A 'critical section of code' is a portion of the code that is accessing > >a shared resource, which can be protected by using an object lock. > > Erm, make that "...accessing *one or more* shared resources.", which is why > it isn't the same thing as an object lock (except in the degenerate case). Sure it is. The object lock is used to 'protect' the shared resources. This is multithreading/tasking 101 stuff, not rocket science. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message