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From: "Manfred Spraul" <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: <stelian.pop@fr.alcove.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Use semaphore for producer/consumer case...
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 19:34:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000d01c0b3c7$e232ae90$5517fea9@local> (raw)

>      consumer()

>             /* Let's wait for 10 items */
>             atomic_set(&sem->count, -10);

That doesn't work, at least the i386 semaphore implementation doesn't
support semaphore counts < 0.

--
    Manfred


             reply	other threads:[~2001-03-23 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-23 18:34 Manfred Spraul [this message]
2001-03-26 14:54 ` Stelian Pop
2001-03-26 17:12   ` Manfred Spraul
2001-03-27  7:57     ` Stelian Pop
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-03-23 12:07 Stelian Pop
2001-03-23 23:52 ` Nigel Gamble
2001-03-26 14:52   ` Stelian Pop

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