Re: [RFC] New locking primitive for 2.5

From: Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 13:04:58 EST

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On February 7, 2002 04:38 pm, Martin Wirth wrote:
> The new lock uses a combination of a spinlock and a (mutex-)semaphore.

Spinaphore :-)

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Daniel
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