Re: Proc

[Ognyan Kulev]

Forwarded because of mistaken Cc: hurd-hurd@gnu.org

On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 06:37:39PM +0300, Ognyan Kulev wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:28:37AM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote:
> > > BTW Why in proc/main.c there is global_lock that is used in 
> > > message_demuxer
> > > if proc is single-threaded?
> > 
> > This is where everything is serialized.
> 
> If there is only one thread, what is the need to be serialized?
> 
> 1. Wait for a message
> 2. Read it
> 3. Execute it
> 4. Go to 1
> 
> Regards
> -- 
> Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>, "\"Programmer\""

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Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>, "\"Programmer\""