On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 09:26:45PM +0200, Joern Nettingsmeier wrote: > i see. but what about the other scenario: > thread A reads read_ptr. > thread B runs and increments it. > thread A increases the old (wrong) read_ptr value by one and writes a > wrong value. > > isn't that a problem here? This can't happen. For both read_ptr and write_ptr only *one* of the two sides will ever modify it. That is really the basic idea behind all this. The other side just reads it, and will never read a value that could trigger an error. side. Ciao, -- FA Laboratorio di Acustica ed Elettroacustica Parma, Italia Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
