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From: "Michał Nazarewicz" <m.nazarewicz@samsung.com>
To: Fundu <fundu_1999@yahoo.com>, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wake_up_interruptible
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 09:35:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.vck0ovk47p4s8u@pikus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25990.28429.qm@web63403.mail.re1.yahoo.com>

On Tue, 11 May 2010 22:32:46 +0200, Fundu <fundu_1999@yahoo.com> wrote:
> what happen when you call wake_up_interruptible and there are no task waiting on that wait queue right then.
>
> But say after some time a task comes along and start waiting (after the wake_up_interruptible is called).
> Would that task be not wait at all because there was a pending wake up

It will be waiting for another wake up.

> What i'm looking for is a mechanism where by any old wake if not acted upon are lost.

Semahore may be a good option.

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      reply	other threads:[~2010-05-12  7:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-11 20:32 wake_up_interruptible Fundu
2010-05-12  7:35 ` Michał Nazarewicz [this message]

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