Re: FUSYN and RT

[Joe Korty]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:15:02AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:

> It seems like these two locks are going to interact on a very limited
> basis. Fusyn will be the user space mutex, and the RT mutex is only in
> the kernel. You can't lock an RT mutex and hold it, then lock a Fusyn
> mutex (anyone disagree?). That is assuming Fusyn stays in user space.

Well yeah, but you could lock a fusyn, then invoke a system call which
locks a kernel semaphore.

Regards,
Joe
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