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Re: [rtl] What is relationship between realtime interrupts



On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 09:49:41AM +0000, Stuart Hughes wrote:
> Hi Victor,
> 
> Why not implement POSIX 1003.1c fully and have normal mutexes and
> condition variables.  What you propose here is so close to that, it seem
> strange that you don't implement standard POSIX.  Note that the POSIX
> 1003.1c mutexes and convars are SMP safe.  In posix, the normal
> proceedure is (from Butenhof):

We are going to have condition variables, but I think they are a poor
solution requiring a multi-step operation where one step would be
simpler and clearer. 

I'm thinking that there must be a better solution: preferrably using 
the POSIX API. Any suggestions?