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Andries Brouwer wrote: > I don't have POSIX in front of me, but I do not think > the system must detect deadlock. It is allowed to detect > deadlock, and in case it happens to do so EDEADLK is the > apprpriate error return. Yes. My question was: what is a deadlock (in this context) ? I.e. under what conditions must it _not_ return EDEADLK ? POSIX makes an attempt at describing it, but in rather vague terms (see my original posting). Basically, the description does not exclude EDEADLK already if a process holds any lock, tries to get any other, and needs to sleep for it. - Werner -- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, ICA, EPFL, CH werner.almesberger@ica.epfl.ch / /_IN_N_032__Tel_+41_21_693_6621__Fax_+41_21_693_6610_____________________/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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