From: Alan Stern <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:09:10 -0500 (EST)
> Do you have a better proposal for a way to prevent blocking notifier
> chains from being modified while in use? Or would you prefer to rewrite
> all the callout routines that currently block, so that all the notifier
> chains can be made atomic and we don't need the blocking notifier API?
I think if the user needs special locking, they should implement
it.
If you need to block, take a mutex around the notifier calls.
(I nearly typed semaphore there, sorry Ingo! :-)
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