Subj : Re: Improving read-write lock To : comp.programming.threads From : Markus Elfring Date : Thu Feb 17 2005 09:46 pm > Maybe something like this already exists and has been implemented. > Please give me some resources (url's) in that case. 1. Can the description about "Concurrency and Locking" by Ron M. Flannery give you any ideas? http://www.iiug.org/waiug/archive/iugnew73.htm 2. Is the paper "A Log(n) Multi-Mode Locking Protocol for Distributed Systems" by Nirmit Desai and Frank Mueller useful for you? http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/desai03logn.html Regards, Markus .