Messages in this thread | | | From | (Matthias Urlichs) | Subject | Re: 2.2.1 lockup (SCSI related) | Date | 5 Feb 1999 14:54:29 +0100 |
| |
dwguest@win.tue.nl (Guest section DW) writes: > [ semaphores made recursive ] > It's even more absurd that such a fundamental change in the semantics > of a core kernel primitive was made during the deep code freeze. > What's the problem with allowing recursive semaphores? It doesn't break anything which wasn't broken before. The only difference is that now your code can continue while before it would deadlock.
-- Matthias Urlichs | noris network GmbH | smurf@noris.de | ICQ: 20193661 The quote was selected randomly. Really. | http://www.noris.de/~smurf/ -- I don't bite. Well...actually, I do. -- K'Ehleyr to Worf, "The Emissary", stardate 42901.3
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |