Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:33:13 +0000
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: inaky@linux.intel.com
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, mingo@redhat.com, akpm@osdl.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/2] semaphores: add down_interruptible_timeout() and asm-generic/semaphore.h
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On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:13:38PM -0800, inaky@linux.intel.com wrote:
> Introduce down_interruptible_timeout() using timers to make the waiter
> stop waiting by simulating a signal (see first patch for more
> details). As well introduce asm-generic/semaphore.h and make other
> architectures use it too.

What do you want this for?  Do you really need a full counting semaphore
or do you actually want a mutex?

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