[Info-vax] writing a lock free linked list

Richard Brodie R.Brodie at rl.ac.uk
Mon Oct 5 08:03:34 EDT 2009


"Joshua Lehrer" <usenet_vms at lehrerfamily.com> wrote in message 
news:94504f30-6e65-41a0-8374-51005c273f27 at g31g2000yqc.googlegroups.com...

>I am trying to write a lock-free linked list.  I belive I have the
> general idea down.

Could you not use the interlocked queue instructions? I don't
know what fancy stuff they do behind the scenes, and they're
not lock-free depending on what sense of the word you mean. 





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