Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:33:29 -0400 | From | Joe Korty <> | Subject | Re: FUSYN and RT |
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On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:15:02AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> It seems like these two locks are going to interact on a very limited > basis. Fusyn will be the user space mutex, and the RT mutex is only in > the kernel. You can't lock an RT mutex and hold it, then lock a Fusyn > mutex (anyone disagree?). That is assuming Fusyn stays in user space.
Well yeah, but you could lock a fusyn, then invoke a system call which locks a kernel semaphore.
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