Re: I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx into the kernel

[Marcin Dalecki]

On 2005-10-03, at 15:54, Luben Tuikov wrote:

> On 09/30/05 19:42, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
>
> > On 2005-10-01, at 00:01, Luben Tuikov wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Why should synchronization between Process A and Process B
> > > reading storage attributes take place in the kernel?
> > >
> > > They can synchronize in user space.
> >
> >
> > In a mandatory and transparent way? How?
>
> Futex, userspace mutex, etc.  All through a user
> space library interface.

They give a means of possible synchronization between beneviolent  
users, but not a mandatory lock on the shared resource.
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