Re: spin lock

Elizabeth D Rather wrote:
Krishna Myneni wrote:
...
The only concern I have is to avoid the situation where the signal
handler never
gets the lock.

That's called a bug, dear ;-) We all like to avoid those.

Cheers,
Elizabeth


It would certainly be poor design, at the least. But I should state the concern
more accurately. I want to ensure that the handler obtains a lock during at
least x% of its attempts, where in my application, x is around 50. The mutual
exclusion mechanism must guarantee that this will be the case.

Cheers,
Krishna
.

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