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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 15:35:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
To: Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: timing out on a semaphore
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
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On 27-Feb-2001 Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 10:40:35PM +0000, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
>> 1: Your code is leaving the semaphore in a down'ed state
>>    somehow.
> 
> This was probably it.  I don't know why it works for me but not some
> other people though. :-/

UP vs. MP ?



- Davide

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