Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation | Date | Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:35:07 +0000 |
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> Why bother. As has already been discussed up and down are the natural > and normal names for counting semaphores. You don't need to obsolete the > old API thats just silly, you need to add a new one and wait for people > to use it.
The vast majority of ups and downs are actually mutex related not semaphore related, so by majority share, up/down perhaps ought to be repurposed to mutexes: they _are_ the preeminent uses.
From my modified tree, I see:
semaphore up down down_in down_try Counting 41 59 1 0 Mutex 4405 2824 362 107
> The old API is still very useful for some applications that want > counting semaphores.
Whilst that is true, they're in a small minority, and it'd be easier to change them.
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