>wait a sec, what about starvation issues ? if the semaphore is used for >resource counting then it's ok. but if it is used as a mutex then we're >in trouble. LIFO is unacceptable, FIFO might have priority inversion. >calculating goodness() on all the processes in the waitqueue and picking >the winner sounds like the way to go, IMHO. >
Agree.
Davide.
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