On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 16:52, Christophe Aeschlimann
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Now what will happen if a thread tries to switch on the led while another
> thread tries to switch it off ?
>
> Thank your for your comments / help.

I am not sysfs guy, but I think it will be executed in first come first served

The way I see it, eventually in the hardware level, it should be
something like inb/outb, right? thus we could say it's more or less
"atomic" operation.

Then, even without any kind of lock....it should be safe....


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