In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203041953480.1561-100000@blue1.dev.mcafeelabs.com> y
ou write:
> On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> > In message <1015293007.882.87.camel@phantasy> you write:
> > > On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 17:15, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > >
> > > > That's great. What if the process holding the mutex dies while there're
> > > > sleeping tasks waiting for it ?
I don't see that. Your data, your program, your funeral, yes?
Want to autoclean the lock? There are many ways to do this in
userspace. For most cases, the problem is "and then what"?
Rusty.
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