[ubuntu-uk] wifi dongle driver .....

[Barry Drake]

On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 23:56 +0100, Alan Bell wrote:
> mutex is short for mutually exclusive, it means that if the lock is set 
> then no other parallel process is allowed to mess with the thing that is 
> being locked. Semaphores are like mutexes but are slightly more 
> sophisticated.
> 
> http://geekswithblogs.net/shahed/archive/2006/06/09/81268.aspx

Thanks for that Alan.  I'll take a closer look.  sema_init works just
fine in place of MUTEX, but needs a second parameter.  I used '1' which
seems to work OK.  I'll look at the reference above and see what I've
been doing.

Regards,		Barry.

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