From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Sep 11 18: 1:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from tinker.exit.com (exit-gw.power.net [207.151.46.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 440F837B424; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 18:01:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from realtime.exit.com (realtime [206.223.0.5]) by tinker.exit.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8C11Va22409; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 18:01:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: (from frank@localhost) by realtime.exit.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8C11nN56928; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 18:01:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank) From: Frank Mayhar Message-Id: <200009120101.e8C11nN56928@realtime.exit.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files src/sys/sys random.h src/sys/dev/randomdev hash.c hash.h harvest.c randomdev.c yarrow.c yarro In-Reply-To: <20000912091705.O19431@wantadilla.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Sep 12, 2000 09:17:05 am" To: Greg Lehey Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 18:01:49 -0700 (PDT) Cc: John Baldwin , Mark Murray , FreeBSD-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: frank@exit.com Organization: Exit Consulting X-Copyright0: Copyright 2000 Frank Mayhar. All Rights Reserved. X-Copyright1: Permission granted for electronic reproduction as Usenet News or email only. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > I've been wondering whether we shouldn't associate mutexes with data > structures rather than code. It's possible that it would make it > easier to avoid deadlocks. Thoughts? Speaking as a BSD/OS (and former Unixware) developer: YES! :-) -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://store.exit.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message