On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:15:57PM +0100, Jan Hudec wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:57:55 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 01:51, Yao, Zhigang(Richard) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I want to do the atomic operation ( such as i++ ) in user space, can I copy > > > and include include/XXX/atomic.h directly? > > > > the answer is no. If you do that the operations aren't guaranteed to be > > atomic (and probably arent even on x86) > > > > However glibc has primitives for this instead, as do helper libraries > > like apr etc etc > > Failed to find them so far! Please, could you share with us which ones you mean. http://lxr.webperf.org/source.cgi/srclib/apr/include/apr_atomic.h for example -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
