I would appreciate if some one could explain the difference between "completion" variables and the semaphores in Linux.
1) In semaphore, there is a variable, P() first test the variable and make the process sleep when it equals 0. In condition variable, there is no variable, instead, condition is external variable defined by process. The variable is tested by the process itself. In another word, sleeping is explicit in contion variable while implicit in sempaphore. 2) Whether there are waiting processes, V() alway increases the variable, however,signal() of contition variable will do nothing when there is no waiting process. Hope this helpful ! Good Luck! Regards, Cheng - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
