On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:56:29 +0100
Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Well, if you insist on having it again:
>
> Waiting for atomic value to be zero:
>
> while (atomic_read(&x))
> continue;
>
and this I would say is buggy code all the way.
Not from a pure C level semantics, but from a "busy waiting is buggy"
semantics level and a "I'm inventing my own locking" semantics level.
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