Re: Thread starvation with mutex

Ulrich Drepper wrote:

>Luke Elliott wrote:
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>>Is there a reason why NPTL does not use this
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>It's slow and unnecessary.
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Could someone please explain why? Clearly, as someone with apparently 
*no* thread experience I need all the help I can get. Actually I think 
Jamie just did. Thank you.

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>>Surely this is pretty normal, expected behaviour of a mutex?
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>Perhaps expected by you.  Anybody with thread experience wouldn't expect it.
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I always find your responses to be somewhat acidic and uncalled for but 
to be honest - funny. This is no exception. I've been reading this list 
and posting when I find issues or oddities for some time now. Isn't a 
modicum of respect in order? If not - how about, oh, I don' t know, 
common courtesy? I mean, if nothing else, I never posted asking how to 
build glibc from cvs. Ok maybe once.

Luke.