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From: Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: timing out on a semaphore
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 23:28:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010227232854.Z13721@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010225224039.W13721@redhat.com> <3A9990EF.8D4ECF49@uow.edu.au> <20010227143942.C13721@redhat.com> <3A9C2CE3.ABA1A6A6@uow.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <3A9C2CE3.ABA1A6A6@uow.edu.au>; from andrewm@uow.edu.au on Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 10:40:35PM +0000

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On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 10:40:35PM +0000, Andrew Morton wrote:

> 1: Your code is leaving the semaphore in a down'ed state
>    somehow.

This was probably it.  I don't know why it works for me but not some
other people though. :-/

> (As you can tell, I'm desparately avoiding having
> to understand the semaphore code again :))

:-)

Tim.
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-27 23:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-25 22:40 timing out on a semaphore Tim Waugh
2001-02-25 22:53 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-02-25 23:10 ` Andrew Morton
2001-02-27 14:39   ` Tim Waugh
2001-02-27 22:40     ` Andrew Morton
2001-02-27 23:28       ` Tim Waugh [this message]
2001-02-27 23:35         ` Davide Libenzi
2001-02-26  9:19 ` Arjan van de Ven

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