On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 03:35:36AM +0300, guy keren wrote: > "to hold" a semaphore, or "because we're already holding some other > semaphore"?
good point, sorry for not being clear. "To sleep on a semaphore while waiting to acquire it". Specifically - see arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.c, __down(), which sets the task to TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE. Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/
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