From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 6 16:22:01 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA29312 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 16:22:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA29298 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 16:21:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id QAA21755; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 16:18:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id QAA28856; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 16:18:38 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id RAA23193; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 17:18:36 -0700 Message-ID: <3693FD5C.F0941F81@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 17:18:36 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Don Lewis CC: Terry Lambert , Nate Williams , rb@gid.co.uk, narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, bright@hotjobs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question about re-entrancy. References: <199901062300.PAA01961@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Don Lewis wrote: > > } > Right, and how do you propose to do this w/out object locks? > } > } By locking entry to the code that does the manipulation instead. Which is just a finer grain version of the Big Giant Lock. If you can't see the difference between locking an object and locking the thread accessing the object, you need to look more closely. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters +1.801.915.2061 Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message