From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <10e606b8715d8e2c9fda5768466036ca@proxima.alt.za> References: <10e606b8715d8e2c9fda5768466036ca@proxima.alt.za> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:40:05 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [9fans] That deadlock, again From: Russ Cox To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8407ca0c-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 lock loops are about Locks (spin locks), not QLocks. the relative ordering of any two calls to qlock and qunlock is irrelevant. russ