Re: [RFC] New locking primitive for 2.5

From: Richard Gooch (rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 13:06:23 EST

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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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