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On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Alan Cox 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. > > Do you know if SuS is that relaxed ? SuS v2 saith: A potential for deadlock occurs if a process controlling a locked region is put to sleep by attempting to lock another process' locked region. If the system detects that sleeping until a locked region is unlocked would cause a deadlock, fcntl() will fail with an [EDEADLK] error. regards, Tigran - 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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