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Re: RFC: import of posix_spawn GSoC results
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 09:43:10AM +0000, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> in this particular case, i think that the child does not actually
> need to acquire the lock because the parent always keeps it locked.
> probably some comments and assertion updates are necessary, tho.
Yeah, will fix it that way for now, but will revisit it for future "extended
parallelization" work. Something like: child does rw_tryenter() and releases
the parent early if that works. If it fails, it does not get its own lock
and releases parent late.
Martin
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