Re: [PATCH] Fast Userspace Mutexes III.

From: Davide Libenzi (davidel@xmailserver.org)
Date: Mon Mar 04 2002 - 21:53:13 EST


On 4 Mar 2002, Robert Love wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 17:15, Davide Libenzi wrote:
>
> > That's great. What if the process holding the mutex dies while there're
> > sleeping tasks waiting for it ?
>
> I can't find an answer in the code (meaning the lock is lost...) and no
> one has yet answered. Davide, have you noticed anything?

not inside the code i saw yesterday ...

> I think this needs a proper solution..

i think so, even if it'll make things a bit more complex ...

- Davide

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