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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 rw_semaphores fix
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On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> Fixup for user space is probably not that nice (CMPXCHG is used there by
> linuxthreads)

In user space I'm not convinced that you couldn't do the same thing
equally well by just having the proper dynamically linked library.  You'd
not get in-lined lock primitives, but that's probably fine.

		Linus

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