Mutex problem

[Joel Sherrill]

On 03/29/2011 08:22 AM, Leon Pollak wrote:
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> On Tuesday March 29 2011, Joel Sherrill wrote:
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> > On 03/29/2011 03:39 AM, Leon Pollak wrote:
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> > > I ask the community for a deep pardon - the problem found and, as
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> > > always, is stupid.
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> >
>
> > OK. You tease us. What was it? :D
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> >
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> > My reading of this was that it behaved like it was supposed to. The high
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> > priority task "transferred" the semaphore to a low priority one and
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> > continued to run.
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> The high priority task destroyed (as there was an error signal) the 
> global structure, which contained between others also the semaphore 
> ID, after it released it.
>
> While the low priority did not checked the result of "release", which 
> showed the incorrect ID...:-(
>
> Sorry to disturb the people...:-(
>
No.  It is good to see closure on real problems.  There are lots
of reasons why things go wrong.  We all learn from each other.


> -- 
>
> Leon
>


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