Re: Bug in set/gethostname.

George Bonser (grep@shorelink.com)
Sun, 17 May 1998 16:24:02 -0700 (PDT)


On Mon, 18 May 1998, Peter T. Breuer wrote:

> "A month of sundays ago Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:"
>
> You don't need to acquire a semaphore on read, do you? Surely only on
> write? It doesn't matter if two people read the same data
> simultaneously, so long as no two people write it simultaneously ...
>
> Peter ptb@it.uc3m.es
>

You do not want to start a write if someone else is in the process of
reading.

George Bonser

Microsoft! Which end of the stick do you want today?

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