On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 09:19:47AM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
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> On Jun 29, 2006, at 9:02 AM, Juergen Hannken-Illjes wrote:
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> >Was a suggestion of Bill Studenmund if I remeber right.
> >
> >No problem to put the recursion into the lock.
> 
> ...at which point you can simply use a lockmgr lock instead of  
> rolling your own, and you automatically get the writer-gets-priority  
> behavior, etc.

At least as a base.  Lockmgr locks lack the "do I have a shared lock" query.
I need a lock where a thread already owning a shared lock succeeds when
it wants another shared lock.  Last time I looked lockmg locks had this only
for exclusive locks.

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Juergen Hannken-Illjes - hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de - TU Braunschweig (Germany)