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Subj : Re: reliability of setting thread priority
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : gottlobfrege
Date : Fri Feb 25 2005 06:29 pm


David Schwartz wrote:
>
>     You can't implement good primitives in a portable way. You need
> platform-specific atomic compare/exchange type operators.
>
>     DS

Yeah, but you can minimize the porting.  I know that the atomics,
mutexes, etc need to be ported, but that can easily be wrapped up.  And
they would need to be ported anyhow.
I was wondering if the technique was portable.  Which is also why I
wanted to get a 'feel' for how portable it was.  If priority setting
(or whatever technique I choose) is widely available and only fails on
esoteric systems, then that's good enough for me. (for some def'n of
'esoteric')

Tony

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