2001-07-27 23:10:42

by Brian J. Watson

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.7 read/write semaphore trylock routines

"Brian J. Watson" wrote:
>
> Linus-
>
> This patch adds non-blocking routines for grabbing read/write
> semaphores. David Howells has seen it already, and has no problem with
> it. I've hammered on both the i386 and generic versions with a
> contention test, and the code works correctly.
>
> I think it's ready to be included.
>

Sorry. I'm just getting used to mail, since Netscape mangles patches. This is my real reply address. [email protected] is invalid.


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