From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932440AbVLQK7W (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Dec 2005 05:59:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932507AbVLQK7W (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Dec 2005 05:59:22 -0500 Received: from ookhoi.xs4all.nl ([213.84.114.66]:41096 "EHLO favonius.humilis.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932440AbVLQK7V (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Dec 2005 05:59:21 -0500 Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 11:59:14 +0100 From: Sander To: Erik Mouw Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux@horizon.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation Message-ID: <20051217105914.GA12080@favonius> Reply-To: sander@humilis.net References: <20051215135812.14578.qmail@science.horizon.com> <20051215165255.GA5510@harddisk-recovery.com> <20051216121754.GC18210@harddisk-recovery.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051216121754.GC18210@harddisk-recovery.com> X-Uptime: 11:40:54 up 29 days, 22:22, 23 users, load average: 13.47, 13.48, 13.49 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Erik Mouw wrote (ao): > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 05:52:55PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote: > > Just FYI, according to Dijkstra[1] V means "verhoog" which is dutch for > > "increase". P means "prolaag" which isn't a dutch word, just something > > Dijkstra invented. I guess he did that because "decrease" is "verlaag" > > in dutch and that would give you the confusing V() and V() > > operations... > > Last night I've been browsing a little more through Dijkstra's papers, > and in a completely unrelated paper[1] about a now obsolete computer I > found that "prolaag" is a neologism coming from "probeer te verlagen", > which means "try and decrease". "probeer te verlagen" translates to "try to decrease". "try and decrease" would be "probeer en verlaag". -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net