cross-thread locking

[Daniel Eischen]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> I can't find a rationale for spinlocks; I _thought_ there was
> one in some draft of the spec that I had read.  I wouldn't
> really advocate using spinlocks due to possible priority
> inversion problems and wasting cycles.

Found it.  It's in the Rationale -> System Interfaces -> General Info.
Here's a link that might get you there:

  http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/xrat/xsh_chap02.html#tag_03_02_09

-- 
Dan Eischen