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From: "Fco. J. Ballesteros" <nemo@lsub.org>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] qunlock
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:09:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <69fb9e9b38b36c29f5655c37e869409b@plan9.escet.urjc.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e7bb12a51d39ea1b0cd4adaa8d5c5cf7@davidashen.net>

> Channels and qlocks are the same thing, aren't they?

In the end, all might be the same. But a qlock, for me, is
a lock. I acquire it, I release it later. A channel on the other
hand is something that lets me send/recv. That can be used
to do a sleep/wakeup approach, as well as a I want this, take that
one.



  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-24 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-22  6:04 dvd
2004-06-22  8:06 ` C H Forsyth
2004-06-22  9:09   ` C H Forsyth
2004-06-22 14:19     ` ron minnich
2004-06-22 14:38       ` boyd, rounin
2004-06-22 15:13         ` Rob Pike
2004-06-23 20:11     ` dvd
2004-06-23 20:24       ` Rob Pike
2004-06-23 21:00         ` dvd
2004-06-23 21:12           ` boyd, rounin
2004-06-24  7:19           ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-06-24 10:58             ` dvd
2004-06-24  7:34           ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-06-24 11:02             ` dvd
2004-06-24 11:14               ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-06-24 12:18                 ` dvd
2004-06-24 13:09                   ` Fco. J. Ballesteros [this message]
2004-06-24 13:30                   ` Sape Mullender
2004-06-24 13:47                   ` boyd, rounin
2004-06-24 13:42               ` boyd, rounin

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