Re: [PATCH, RFC 1/3] Add sem_getcount() to arches that lack it

[Nathan Scott]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:10:42PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Andrew> (Why do they want to do this anyway?)
> 
> Neither use seems really fundamental.  The XFS use is explicitly
> inside #ifdef DEBUG and seems to be used only for assertions.

Right, our peeking at that value is debug-only (so usually its not
even compiled in).  I wouldn't go out of your way to add a more
permanent interface just for this, we can live without it.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan
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