Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 14:22:07 +0200 From: Michael Schuster - Sun Germany <michael.schuster@germany.sun.com> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Greg Lehey <grog@wantadilla.lemis.com>, Chuck Paterson <cp@bsdi.com>, Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, Joerg Micheel <joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz>, Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com>, Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mutexes and semaphores (was: cvs commit: src/sys/conf filessrc/sys/sys random.h src/sys/dev/randomdev hash.c hash.h harvest.c randomdev.cyarrow.c yarro) Message-ID: <39D87DEF.CF3D919C@germany.sun.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0009240936050.8550-100000@bird.feral.com>
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Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > I agree - the idea of recursive mutices evil and should go, but the > > idea of an owner should not. It's nice to be able to write code that > > KASSERTs that it already owns a given mutex. > > I'm not sure I agree. Having lived through Solaris hell with recursive mutex > panics, I rather like the BSD/OS approach. chiming in on this a bit late, but nevertheless this begs the question: aren't you shooting the messanger here? > -matt Michael -- Michael Schuster / Michael.Schuster@sun.com Sun Microsystems GmbH / Sonnenallee 1, D-85551 Heimstetten (+49 89) 46008-2974 / x62974 Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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