Re: [Pthreads-hackers] pthreads and cancellation

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 08:57:51PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> We've atomicity.h, but I'm not sure whether you could use the current
> interface. You can always modify it or add some new operations.
> The architectures which don't have the atomic operations will still
> use spinlocks.

Wonderful.  I will have a closer look at that.  I eralized that I only need
an atomic bit in the worst case, and that should be easy to get.  If there
are other atomic operations, that will help.

> See the following threads:
 
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/1999-08/msg00139.html
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2000-01/msg00000.html

Ah, very good!  Thanks for pointing that out to me.

Marcus


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