On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 08:47:23PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > mutexes and spin locks behave identically. The only significant > difference is the respective performance costs of contention and > blocking.
Mutexes maintain a queue of waiting threads. I thought the goal of this queue was to ensure that threads are served in their order of arrival? Thanks, Ludovic. _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
