Fons Adriaensen wrote: > 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. ah, of course. one reader, one writer only. sorry for the noise. -- jörn nettingsmeier home://germany/45128 essen/lortzingstr. 11/ http://spunk.dnsalias.org phone://+49/201/491621 Kurt is up in Heaven now. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
