Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation | From | Miles Bader <> | Date | Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:24:08 +0900 |
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David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> writes: >> Is there a reason you didnt answer the comment about down/up being the >> usual way computing refers to the operations on counting semaphores but >> just deleted it ? > > up/down is also used in conjunction with mutexes and R/W semaphores, so > counting semaphores do not have exclusive rights to the terminology.
I suspect that is only the case where the author of the mutex was accustomed to using semaphores as mutexes before-hand; "up/down" are rather poor names for mutex operations otherwise. lock/unlock are much better.
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