Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Jan 1999 04:02:19 +0100 (CET) | From | MOLNAR Ingo <> | Subject | Re: MM deadlock [was: Re: arca-vm-8...] |
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On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, MOLNAR Ingo wrote:
> [...] 'owner' is only meaningful to the owner of the critical region, > nobody else is is supposed to write or evaluate that field. [...]
this is not strictly true. We do evaluate the owner field (read-only) outside of the critical path, but only owner==me is being cared about, and this can only happen in a safe way, within the critical region.
-- mingo
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