Jody McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > parisc and frv define sem_getcount() in semaphore.h, which returns the > current semaphore value. This is cleaner than doing > atomic_read(&semaphore.count), currently done in > drivers/ieee1394/nodemgr.c and fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c, and will work > on all architectures if sem_getcount() is added.
That's a fairly bizarre thing to want to do. Would it be hard to modify xfs and 1394 to stop wanting to read a semaphore's up() count? (Why do they want to do this anyway?) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
