http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/semacquire
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Venkatesh Srinivas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > In Russ Cox's and Sape Mullender's 2008 IWP9 paper on semaphores in Plan 9, > they suggest that semaphore (semacquire/semrelease)-based locks in libc were > better than the current spinning ones; they note that the locks would be > replaced in the distribution soon. > Is that still in the cards? > -- vs > -- Federico G. Benavento
