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From: "Robin Doer" <robin@robind.de>
Subject: RE: Mutual Exclusion in Kernel
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 10:43:20 +0200
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Good morning!

Ankit Jain (ankitjain1580@yahoo.com) schrieb:
>
> hi
>
> what is spin lock?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_lock

aka "busy waiting". A thread is polling <something> until <something> says
"ok" and the thread continues working.

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> thanks
>
> ankit

Have fun,
Robin

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