Re: [GENERAL] Order of granting with many waiting on one lock

2013-02-10 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Pavan Deolasee wrote: > * Determine where to add myself in the wait queue. > * > * Normally I should go at the end of the queue. Ah! That's perfect. So they'll actually go into perfect strict round-robin, assuming that there are no other locks comin

Re: [GENERAL] Order of granting with many waiting on one lock

2013-02-10 Thread Pavan Deolasee
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > Is there any sort of guarantee that all > the processes will eventually get a turn, or could two processes > handball the lock to each other and play keepings-off against the > other eighteen? > That should not happen. There are instances