Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750796AbVKRPTB (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:19:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750798AbVKRPTB (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:19:01 -0500 Received: from mx1.cdacindia.com ([203.199.132.35]:16989 "HELO mx2.cdac.ernet.in") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750796AbVKRPTA (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:19:00 -0500 Message-ID: <437DEF2A.5030609@cdac.in> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:41:38 +0530 From: Karthik Sarangan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040805 Netscape/7.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: sem_t Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 418 Lines: 12 is the 'struct _pthread_fastlock' a spin-lock? which primitive will implement non-cpu intensive synchronization? my kernel is 2.6.9 (Distro RHEL WS 4 Update 1) Karthik S - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/