Samuel Thibault, le Sat 05 Aug 2006 02:27:35 +0200, a écrit : > assert (! __spin_lock_locked (&ss->critical_section_lock)); > __spin_lock (&ss->critical_section_lock); > > Why should one check that a spinlock is free before taking it?? Here the > purpose is to cancel _another_ thread, so it _can_ happen that the lock > be taken any time... > > Shouldn't at least these assertion just be dropped?
Maybe not the ones from other files, which are not trivial, but at least this one (thread-cancel), which was reported to actually happen, and which to my mind is really arguable. Samuel _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
