Re: lock, mutex etc.

Michael Liao (michael_l@hotmail.com)
Tue, 21 Jul 1998 06:17:17 PDT


At any time, there is only *ONE* process(or thread) in kernel. Linux
have a long way to each really SMP-kernel.

Somnath Roy writes:
>
>
>Hi,
>
>Is there any lock/mutex primitives available for Linux kernel to use ?
How
>the shared data is protected from multiple kernel processes ?
>
>Thanx in advance,
>- Somnath.

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