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From: Alex Riesen <alexander.riesen@synopsys.COM>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: akpm@zip.com.au, mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Futex minor fixes
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 10:08:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030828080841.GA26338@Synopsys.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030828080404.0B1AD2C89E@lists.samba.org>

Rusty Russell, Thu, Aug 28, 2003 02:49:10 +0200:
> In message <20030827065016.GA11214@Synopsys.COM> you write:
> > It set to loop unconditionally, so if the source of wakeup insists on
> > wakeing up the code could result in endless loop, right?
> 
> Yes.  If someone wakes you up, you will wake up.  If someone wakes you
> up an infinite number of times, you will wake up an infinite number of
> times.  cf. waitqueues.
> 

Right. If only we could know what that wakers could be...


      reply	other threads:[~2003-08-28  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-26  3:05 [PATCH 1/2] Futex minor fixes Rusty Russell
2003-08-26  9:26 ` Alex Riesen
2003-08-27  2:40   ` Rusty Russell
2003-08-27  6:50     ` Alex Riesen
2003-08-28  0:49       ` Rusty Russell
2003-08-28  8:08         ` Alex Riesen [this message]

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