From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Martin Wirth <martin.wirth@dlr.de>,
rusty@rustycorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: [PATCH] Lightweight userspace semaphores...
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 11:07:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020304110703.A1116@elinux01.watson.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020302090856.A1332@elinux01.watson.ibm.com> <Pine.SGI.4.21.0203031410310.623951-100000@sam.engr.sgi.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.21.0203031410310.623951-100000@sam.engr.sgi.com>; from pj@engr.sgi.com on Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 02:13:45PM -0800
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 02:13:45PM -0800, Paul Jackson wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Hubertus Franke wrote:
> > But more conceptually, if you process dies while holding a lock ...
> > your app is toast at that point.
>
> Without application specific knowledge, certainly.
>
> Is there someway one could support a hook, to enable
> an application to register a handler that could clean
> up, for those apps that found that worthwhile?
>
I think that's a good idea, I'll think it through and see what Rusty thinks.
> --
> I won't rest till it's the best ...
> Programmer, Linux Scalability
> Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.650.933.1373
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-04 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-27 8:43 [PATCH] Lightweight userspace semphores Martin Wirth
2002-02-27 15:24 ` Hubertus Franke
2002-02-27 17:17 ` Martin Wirth
2002-02-27 19:04 ` Hubertus Franke
[not found] ` <3C7FDF76.9040903@dlr.de>
2002-03-02 14:08 ` [PATCH] Lightweight userspace semaphores Hubertus Franke
2002-03-03 22:13 ` [Lse-tech] " Paul Jackson
2002-03-04 16:07 ` Hubertus Franke [this message]
2002-03-04 6:13 ` Rusty Russell
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