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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: yodaiken@fsmlabs.com, Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] New locking primitive for 2.5
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 21:57:35 +0100
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On February 7, 2002 09:36 pm, yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
> > P.S. If this is going to turn into another priority-inheritance flame, I
> > am stopping here.  Let's take it off-list or just drop it, please.  I'd
> > much prefer to discuss the current combilock issue which is at hand. ;)
> 
> It's the same issue.

Not necessarily, look at Ingo's observation about replacing semaphores with 
combi-locks as opposed to replacing spinlocks with combi-locks.

-- 
Daniel
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