Muli Ben-Yehuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Which standard requires this? POSIX certainly doesn't require fair > pthread mutexes.
1) Fairness is an issue that should be addressed by the scheduler, not by locking primitives. 2) POSIX is a standard that describes a Portable Operating System *Interface*, so you would not expect it to address the issue of fairness. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.goldshmidt.org ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
