RE: FUSYN and RT

From: Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
Date: Tue Apr 12 2005 - 16:38:12 EST


>From: Daniel Walker [mailto:dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx]
>
>> Well yeah, but you could lock a fusyn, then invoke a system call
which
>> locks a kernel semaphore.
>
>Right .. For deadlock detection, I want to assume that the fusyn lock
is
>on the outer level. That way both deadlock detection system will work
>properly (in theory).

So that would mean to create a restriction (which is implicit
now, anyway): "a system call cannot return holding an rt-mutex"
right?

-- Inaky
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