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On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:56:29 +0100 Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Well, if you insist on having it again: > > Waiting for atomic value to be zero: > > while (atomic_read(&x)) > continue; > and this I would say is buggy code all the way. Not from a pure C level semantics, but from a "busy waiting is buggy" semantics level and a "I'm inventing my own locking" semantics level. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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