Re: The meaning of LK_INTERLOCK

1999-10-13 Thread Bill Studenmund
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > The comments say that the flag LK_INTERLOCK means "unlock passed simple > lock after getting lk_interlock". Under what circumstances are we going to > need two simple locks (release the first one after getting the second > one)? I can not understand t

The meaning of LK_INTERLOCK

1999-10-13 Thread Zhihui Zhang
The comments say that the flag LK_INTERLOCK means "unlock passed simple lock after getting lk_interlock". Under what circumstances are we going to need two simple locks (release the first one after getting the second one)? I can not understand this easily from the source code. Any help is appre