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Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:06:23 -0700
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From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] New locking primitive for 2.5
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Daniel Phillips writes:
> On February 7, 2002 04:38 pm, Martin Wirth wrote:
> > The new lock uses a combination of a spinlock and a (mutex-)semaphore.
> 
> Spinaphore :-)

Or mutabloat :-(

				Regards,

					Richard....
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