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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:19:24 -0600
From: Eli Carter <eli.carter@inet.com>
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To: Rusty Russell <rusty@linuxcare.com.au>
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Subject: Re: generic sleeping locks?
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Rusty Russell wrote:
> 
> In message <3A3E98E9.F68BC13A@inet.com> you write:
> > Alan Cox wrote:
> > >
> > > > Are there blocking lock primitives already defined somewhere in the
> > > > kernel?
> > >
> > > down and up are normally appropriate for this
> >
> > Ungh.  Forest.  Trees.  *sigh*  Sorry for the dumb question.
> > Thanks for the reply Alan.  :)
> >
> > Ok, second part of the question:  What about blocking read/write locks
> > (with _interruptible variants)?
> 
> Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking*
> 
> Rusty.
> --
> Hacking time.

Perhaps I should have specified that I'm working with 2.2.xy....
I'll d/l a 2.4.0-test and look at the docbook in that.  Thanks for the
pointer.

Eli 
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