Re: window lock functions
Eric Salo (salo@mrjones.engr.sgi.com)
Mon, 27 Nov 1995 16:08:30 -0800
What if a process wants to atomically perform some action on a remote piece of
data? If I read your proposal correctly, only the local process may lock a
window. So unless I'm missing something painfully obvious, I don't understand
how this can be used to implement general RMW operations...
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