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)?
TIA,
Eli
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