Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 5 Mar 2002 09:23:39 -0800 (PST) | From | Davide Libenzi <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fast Userspace Mutexes III. |
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On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Rusty Russell wrote:
> In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203041953480.1561-100000@blue1.dev.mcafeelabs.com> y > ou write: > > On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Rusty Russell wrote: > > > > > In message <1015293007.882.87.camel@phantasy> you write: > > > > On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 17:15, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > > > > > > > > That's great. What if the process holding the mutex dies while there're > > > > > sleeping tasks waiting for it ? > > I don't see that. Your data, your program, your funeral, yes? > > Want to autoclean the lock? There are many ways to do this in > userspace. For most cases, the problem is "and then what"?
I tried hard to remember cases where fetures of IPC sems have been handy to me but i failed.
*as designed*
- Davide
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