On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 10:07:56PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Florian Weimer: > > > * Adeodato Simó: > > > >> Also, I have no idea what's the case for Debian: "On some versions of > >> Linux, a thread is not able to override locks created by a different > >> thread in the same process." Does this depend on the kernel, on libc, > >> or on something else? > > > > This is probably the same problem as the svnserve problem described > > here: > > > > <http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2005-04/0355.shtml> > > > > IIRC, NPTL is fine, but LinuxThreads aren't. > > I intended to write the opposite: file locks are a per-process > resource in NPTL, so NPTL probably has the problems, and LinuxThreads > doesn't.
A question: why using file locking instead of thread mutexes (which is the proper answer to syncronization issues in a thread-safe architecture)? "It's more easy" is not a decent answer, of course. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
