Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 11:05:26 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Chuck Paterson <cp@bsdi.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new api for asynchronous task execution Message-ID: <200005191805.LAA09036@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 May 2000 09:46:24 BST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005190945150.73457-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
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> > The only system I've ever worked on that implements them refer to > > them as inversion-safe or inversion-proof semaphores. I've never seen > > another name, including "priority lending", in any literature or > > article on the subject. > > Anyway, whatever we choose to call it, the BSD/OS mutex does have support > for priority lending. Can someon that's familiar with both make a comparison between the BSD/OS mutex and the Solaris 7 'turnstile' mutex implementation? I'm getting the impression that the two are in fact extremely similar... -- \\ 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
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