From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chuckw@ieee.org Subject: Mutual exclusion Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 12:05:01 -0400 Sender: linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020609120501.A12543@whatever.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org Hello All, What are the different types of Mutual exclusion primitives available in linux? I know there is the pthread mutex and semaphores. Is there anything else? Thanks Much, Chuck