On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:47:01PM +0100, Frank A. Uepping wrote: > Is that true that a spinlock gets undefined when compiled > on a uniprocessor system? > Thus spinlocks can't be used to provide mutual exclusion between > concurrently executing processes on a uniprocessor system, isn't is? What exactly would awake a process spinning on a spinlock on a uniproc system? :) There wouldn't be any other running processes on other processors to do the job... -- "It's just PR. They repeat "small government" enough, and people start to look past the facts." -- Matt B
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