On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 08:56:58AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > This reminds me of Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt . That no one > should really be dependent on a particular kernel API doing a particular > thing. The kernel is play dough for the kernel hacker (as it should be), > including kernel semaphores. > > So we can change whatever we want, and make no excuses, as long as we > fix the rest of the kernel to work with our change. That seems pretty > sensible , because Linux should be an evolution.
Daniel, get a fucking clue. Read some CS 101 literature on what a semaphore is defined to be. If you want PI singing dancing blinking christmas tree locking primites call them a mutex, but not a semaphore. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
