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From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] sleep/wakeup bug?
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:46:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84236987873501d056dd65f8a66c37e4@hamnavoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62412e4ba21aba9b056860657c24927d@ladd.quanstro.net>

> this means that any dynamic allocation
> of structures containing rendezvous is not possible because
> structure can be free'd before the rendezvous lock is
> dropped by the waking process.

Déjà vu all over again ...

This and other subtleties of sleep/wakeup were extensively explored
in 9fans back in Jul-Aug 2000.  Look for the subject line "i386
test-and-set problem" if you've got a strong stomach.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-25  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-24 22:01 erik quanstrom
2011-02-25  4:46 ` Russ Cox
2011-02-25  9:46 ` Richard Miller [this message]
2011-02-25  5:26 erik quanstrom
2011-02-25  5:47 ` Russ Cox
2011-02-25  5:53   ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-25  6:01     ` Russ Cox
2011-02-25  6:12       ` erik quanstrom
     [not found]       ` <2808a9fa079bea86380a8d52be67b980@coraid.com>
     [not found]         ` <AANLkTi=4_=++Tm2a9Jq9jSzqUSexkW-ZjM-38oD_bS1y@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]           ` <40925e8f64489665bd5bd6ca743400ea@coraid.com>
2011-02-25  6:51             ` Russ Cox
2011-02-25  7:13               ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-25 14:44                 ` Russ Cox
2011-02-25  8:37               ` Sape Mullender
2011-02-25  9:18                 ` Bakul Shah
2011-02-25 14:57               ` Charles Forsyth
2011-02-25 16:09               ` Venkatesh Srinivas

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