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Re: Detect if scheduler locked?
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 05:45:36PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Now I've got a customer who is calling this routine with the
> > scheduler locked (in order to prevent other tasks from
> > attempting to read the flash while it's busy, I presume).
>
> Semaphores/mutexs sound like the correct answer, with multiple
> read lockers but one write locker. Classical stuff you learn in
> university when doing a CS degree.
Yup. I suggested that. I even pointed out example source code
for a read/write lock in the Butenhof pthreads book.
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