Lockless algorithms [was Re: splxxx replacements?]

[Jan Grant]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Bill Huey wrote:

> Apparently you folks decided to move away from tokens in favor of 
> straight spinlocks since they were a pain in the ass to use and there 
> was no public mention about this.

FWIW I adopted the token abstraction that Matt described for use in a 
(large) set of shell scripts and it works pretty well - also means that 
the rules that script authors need to learn are relatively 
straightforward :-)



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