Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: rw_semaphores | Date | Mon, 16 Apr 2001 15:56:45 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> I'm trying to imagine a case where 32,000 sharing a semaphore was anything but a > major failure and I can't. To me: the result of an attempt by the 32,768th locker > should be a kernel panic. Is there a reasonable scenario where this is wrong?
32000 threads all trying to lock the same piece of memory ? Its not down to reasonable scenarios its down to malicious scenarios
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