Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 May 1998 16:24:02 -0700 (PDT) | From | George Bonser <> | Subject | Re: Bug in set/gethostname. |
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On Mon, 18 May 1998, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> "A month of sundays ago Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:" > > You don't need to acquire a semaphore on read, do you? Surely only on > write? It doesn't matter if two people read the same data > simultaneously, so long as no two people write it simultaneously ... > > Peter ptb@it.uc3m.es >
You do not want to start a write if someone else is in the process of reading.
George Bonser
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