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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