On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> NO ! You are running to Mount Doom and dragging along the horses.
> 
> rw-semaphores are fair. If you have this sequence:
> TASK A                                TASK B
> down_read()
>                                       down_write()
> down_read() --> DEADLOCK
> 
> You must not do this. Debugging such a thing will drive programmers
> to madness in incredible numbers.

;-)

You hear that, Duncan?

Alan Stern



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