On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Cliff Woolley wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
>
> > But it exists in the APR codebase,
>
> I don't count that as making it necessarily correct. :) But even if it
> is correct on Netware, that doesn't make it correct on FreeBSD. And I'm
> pretty sure it's not.
Since Netware is running on x86 just like FreeBSD and also
supports preemption and SMP, a simple word-size write is
incorrect for that platform as there is no bus locking to
ensure atomicity across multiple CPUs.
- Sascha
