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 ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel