Re: [RFC, 2.6] a simple FIFO implementation

[Duncan Sands]

> + * Note that with only one concurrent reader and one concurrent 
> + * writer, you don't need extra locking to use these functions.
                                 ^^^^^ which functions? (ambiguous)
And what does "extra locking" mean?

> +	len = min(len, fifo->size - fifo->in + fifo->out);

After all, since you are reading both in and out here, some kind of
locking is needed.

Ciao,

Duncan.
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