On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 01:56:28AM -0400, Igor Khavkine wrote:
> In the former case, how do I deal with
> rwlocks (what are these btw?)
A read write lock is like a file lock with LOCK_SH and LOCK_EX. Acquiring
the reader lock locks out writers, and acquiring the writer lock locks out
everybody. So readers can run in parallel, while writers are exclusive.
Marcus
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