Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 17:50:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 17:49:55 -0500 Received: from monza.monza.org ([209.102.105.34]:8197 "EHLO monza.monza.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 17:49:45 -0500 Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:19:08 -0800 From: Tim Wright To: Paul Cassella Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Semaphores used for daemon wakeup Message-ID: <20001221141908.D1350@scutter.sequent.com> Reply-To: timw@splhi.com Mail-Followup-To: Paul Cassella , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3A42380B.6E9291D1@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from pwc@sgi.com on Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 01:30:03PM -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Looks good. I'd like to play with you patch, but certainly from a first glance, it would seem to be sufficiently powerful, and significantly cleaner/clearer (at least to me :-) than the current mechanism involving the wait queue games. Regards, Tim -- Tim Wright - timw@splhi.com or timw@aracnet.com or twright@us.ibm.com IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon "Nobody ever said I was charming, they said "Rimmer, you're a git!"" RD VI - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/