Re: [RFC] New locking primitive for 2.5

Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Thu, 7 Feb 2002 19:04:58 +0100

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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