Re: [PATCH] Re: export of sys_call_table

Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
08 Oct 2002 20:00:25 -0400


On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 18:20, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote:

> This version (courtesy of Dave Grothe at GCOM) uses up/down
> semaphore instead of read/write spinlocks.

> +static rwlock_t streams_call_lock = RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
> + read_lock(&streams_call_lock);
> + read_unlock(&streams_call_lock);
> + read_lock(&streams_call_lock);
> + read_unlock(&streams_call_lock);
> + write_lock(&streams_call_lock);
> + write_unlock(&streams_call_lock);

Eh? These are all read-write spinlocks, not semaphores.

Robert Love

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