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
next 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
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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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