locking in a device driver

[Scott Long]

Dinesh Nair wrote:
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> On 10/28/05 16:40 Dinesh Nair said the following:
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>> On 10/28/05 10:52 M. Warner Losh said the following:
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>>> libc_r will block all other threads in the application while an ioctl
>>> executes.  libpthread and libthr won't.  I've had several bugs at work
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>> which is a Good Thing(tm) indeed for me on 4.x.
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> which may not be a Good Thing(tm) after all. this could be causing the 
> problem i'm seeing with the driver on 4.x. any methods to get around 
> this, short of not using threads ?
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I think this thread has gone too far into hyperbole and conjecture. 
What is your code trying to do, and what problems are you seeing?

Scott