Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:18:05 +0200 | | From | "Bart Van Assche" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores | |
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> For me it sounds like you just want to rename semaphores to some other
> name that people don't use them for normal locking?
Would it really be a good idea to give a synchronization concept that
behaves exactly like a semaphore another name than "semaphore" ? The
semaphore concept is well known and is taught in every computer
science course.
Bart.
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