Re: Assuming that TAS() will succeed the first time is verboten

On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:26:23PM -0600, Dominic J. Eidson wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Nathan Myers wrote:
> 
> > The code is based on some odd assumptions.  A select() with 0 delay 
> > returns immediately unless there is an interrupt during its (very short!) 
> 
> If you look closely, it's a select with a 2 second timeout.
> 
> >>> { 2, 0 }

I don't see that in src/backend/storage/buffer/s_lock.c:
 delay.tv_sec = 0; delay.tv_usec = s_spincycle[spin % S_NSPINCYCLE]; (void) select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, &delay);

Nathan Myers
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