From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13683 invoked by alias); 9 Nov 2004 04:40:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-hacker-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-hacker-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 13667 invoked from network); 9 Nov 2004 04:40:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gateway.sf.frob.com) (64.81.54.130) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 9 Nov 2004 04:40:17 -0000 Received: from magilla.sf.frob.com (magilla.sf.frob.com [198.49.250.228]) by gateway.sf.frob.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5757F357B; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 20:40:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from magilla.sf.frob.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by magilla.sf.frob.com (8.12.11/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iA94eGSK012269; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 20:40:16 -0800 Received: (from roland@localhost) by magilla.sf.frob.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id iA94eFFF012266; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 20:40:15 -0800 Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 04:40:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200411090440.iA94eFFF012266@magilla.sf.frob.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: davidm@hpl.hp.com Cc: libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: second thoughts on using dl_iterate_phdr() for cache-validation In-Reply-To: David Mosberger's message of Monday, 8 November 2004 16:14:47 -0800 <16784.3063.544098.392894@napali.hpl.hp.com> Emacs: if it payed rent for disk space, you'd be rich. X-SW-Source: 2004-11/txt/msg00019.txt.bz2 > >>>>> On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 18:32:18 -0800, Roland McGrath said: > > Roland> For platforms where it doesn't work, you can use nonblocking > Roland> synchronization a la seqcount. > > Are you referring to the Linux kernel seqlock or something else? I was referring to the Linux kernel's "seqcount" macros, as an example of the well-known technique.