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RE: Good Algorithm for "Multiple Readers"/"Multiple Writers"
- From: "Stephen Croall" <scroall at tibco dot com>
- To: <pthreads-win32 at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 01:57:24 -0800
- Subject: RE: Good Algorithm for "Multiple Readers"/"Multiple Writers"
Thanks, but the POSIX read/write interface supports a single writer vs.
multiple readers. I'm after multiple writers & readers i.e. multiple
threads can perform writing but readers must wait and vice versa.
Steve.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rustam T. Usmanov [mailto:rustam@unilib.neva.ru]
Sent: 08 December 2005 09:54
To: Stephen Croall
Subject: Re: Good Algorithm for "Multiple Readers"/"Multiple Writers"
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Stephen Croall wrote:
> Is anyone aware of whether POSIX implements this type of lock?
pthread_rwlock ? See
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/pthread_rwlock_i
nit.html
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