On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 07:12:35PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Hi all, > > In principle, a mutex needs to satisfy two conditions: > 1. It should never ever ever allow two threads/processes in > simultaneously (exclusion) > 2. A blocked process/thread should know that, sooner or later, and > assuming that other threads are occasionally releasing the threads, it > will be allowed in (fairness).
POSIX says the second is optional. > I have circumstantial evidence that pthread_mutex_lock on 2.6.18, at > least on a single CPU machine, does not prevent starvation. What happens if you you set thread scheduling to SCHED_FIFO (using pthread_attr_setschedpolicy(SCHED_FIFO), assuming _POSIX_THREAD_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING is defined on your system)? Cheers, Muli ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
