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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 11:23:23 -0600 (MDT)
From: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>
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To: Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@fprintf.net>
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Subject: Re: simple handling of module removals Re: [OKS] Module removal
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Hi,

On 8 Jul 2002, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> Okay, maybe this is a bit naive, but isn't this problem already solved? 
> Couldn't we just put a read/write lock on the module, where using is
> reading, and removing is writing?  As I understand it, this should
> impose little overhead on the use (read) case, and ensure that, when a
> context has the remove (write) lock there are no no users (readers) and
> cannot be any?

My suggestion could cope with just one lock, but there seems to be 
something speaking against that.

							Regards,
							Thunder
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