Hello, On Nov 22, 2007 5:11 PM, Oliver Neukum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Donnerstag 22 November 2007 schrieb Leon Woestenberg: > > I would like to know why this is not so, and if someone has a cleaner > > proposal than the "try spinlock" approach? > > Keep the semaphore. > I forgot to mention that I would like to be prepared for, and use the -rt patch soon. I understand (maybe wrongly?) that semaphores are not real-time pre-emptible, mutexes and spinlocks are.
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