To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org,
       hch@infradead.org, arjan@infradead.org, matthew@wil.cx,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation
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From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
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David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> writes:
>> Is there a reason you didnt answer the comment about down/up being the
>> usual way computing refers to the operations on counting semaphores but
>> just deleted it ?
>
> up/down is also used in conjunction with mutexes and R/W semaphores, so
> counting semaphores do not have exclusive rights to the terminology.

I suspect that is only the case where the author of the mutex was
accustomed to using semaphores as mutexes before-hand; "up/down" are
rather poor names for mutex operations otherwise.  lock/unlock are much
better.

-Miles
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