In article <20010225224039.W13721@redhat.com> you wrote:
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> I'm trying to chase down a semaphore time-out problem. I want to
> sleep on a semaphore until either
> (a) it's signalled, or
> (b) some amount of time has elapsed.
> What I'm doing is calling add_timer, and then down_interruptible, and
> finally del_timer. The timer's function ups the semaphore.
What we _really_ need is down_timeout(), which I plan to implement for early
2.5. The semantics should by similar to the try_lock functions, exect that
it will try for a specified amount of time first.
Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven
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