In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/29/2007
at 12:16 PM, Bill Wilkie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Schmuel:
That's Shmuel!
>The only explanation I got was that the application developer was
>inserting a transaction pointer into a large linked list and
>acquired the lock before searching the list to find the insert
>point.
A lock makes sense; a spin lock does not.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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