Samuel Thibault, le Sat 05 Aug 2006 02:45:34 +0200, a écrit : > 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.
I got it again this afternoon... Samuel _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
