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From: Jake Seevers <pacha@gmx.at>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Srinivas Chinta <chintasrinivas_tech@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: info needed on atomic operations
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 17:57:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200401041757.08438.pacha@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040104122444.98101.qmail@web21208.mail.yahoo.com>

Srinivas,

On Sunday 04 January 2004 13:24, Srinivas Chinta wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I need some information on atomic operations.
> Please provide me some information on how do I do the
> following operations atomically(for iX86):
> (1) set a charecter ( dst = src),
> (2) compare and then set a charecter ( if (dst==X)
> dst = src;)

What exactly are trying to do? Are you working in user- or in kernelspace? 
What kernel? What programming language?

Cheers

Jake
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-04 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-04 12:24 info needed on atomic operations Srinivas Chinta
2004-01-04 16:57 ` Jake Seevers [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-01 21:34 Srinivas Chinta

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