[Tux3] Tux3 kernel port - stupid semaphore tricks

Daniel Phillips phillips at phunq.net
Fri Sep 19 14:06:38 PDT 2008


On Friday 19 September 2008 13:43, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
> I'm assuming this means semaphores aren't actually implemented using waitqueues.
> (and if not, why not?)

Not sure why not.  Semaphores are very old.  They are "wake up
process" oriented rather than "wake up queue".

Daniel

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