On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Tom Bradley wrote:
> ssize_t my_read(struct file * filp, char * buf, size_t count, loff_t * fpos)
> {
>
> ssize_t ret;
> struct semaphore sem;
Note that I'm not familiar with the semaphore code, so I could be
wrong ... but won't this effectively give each thread going into
this code its OWN semaphore on its own stack ?
If it does so, the semaphore won't take care of mutual exclusion
between threads.
regards,
Rik
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