Re: Thread starvation with mutex

Ulrich Drepper <[email protected]> Fri, 06 Feb 2004 15:01:38 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.phil
Organization Red Hat, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Luke Elliott wrote:
> Is there a reason why NPTL does not use this
> "fair" method?

It's slow and unnecessary.


> Surely this is pretty normal, expected behaviour of a mutex?

Perhaps expected by you.  Anybody with thread experience wouldn't expect it.

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