Re: pthread_mutex_trylock() "blocks" when it should not

[alvin]

Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 01:09, Paul Davis wrote:
> 
> > However, in the code for pthread_mutex_trylock(), an attempt is made
> > to acquire the "spinlock" for the mutex. If this fails, we call
> > sched_yield()
> 
> What code are you talking about?  What configuration?
> 

If memory serves me correctly this is a patch for MySQL. 


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