From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: kakadu_croc@yahoo.com
Cc: bcrl@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: brlock_is_locked()?
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 11:03:16 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010822.110316.57459277.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010822180056.58350.qmail@web10902.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108221231260.19638-100000@touchme.toronto.redhat.com> <20010822180056.58350.qmail@web10902.mail.yahoo.com>
From: Brad Chapman <kakadu_croc@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 11:00:56 -0700 (PDT)
I'm not talking about _who_ owns the lock, I'm talking about whether
the lock itself is locked. I don't care which process is using the lock;
I just want to know if _somebody_ is using it. Is this possible?
Show a valid use for such a boolean state, then
the discussion may proceed :-)
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-22 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-22 13:04 brlock_is_locked()? Brad Chapman
2001-08-22 16:33 ` brlock_is_locked()? Ben LaHaise
2001-08-22 18:00 ` brlock_is_locked()? Brad Chapman
2001-08-22 18:03 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2001-08-22 18:17 ` brlock_is_locked()? Brad Chapman
2001-08-22 18:26 ` brlock_is_locked()? David S. Miller
2001-08-22 18:33 ` brlock_is_locked()? Brad Chapman
2001-08-22 18:47 ` brlock_is_locked()? David S. Miller
2001-08-22 18:53 ` brlock_is_locked()? Brad Chapman
2001-08-22 19:00 ` brlock_is_locked()? David S. Miller
2001-08-22 19:08 ` brlock_is_locked()? Brad Chapman
2001-08-24 6:49 ` brlock_is_locked()? Jens Axboe
2001-08-24 14:11 ` brlock_is_locked()? Brad Chapman
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